Skip to main content

Who owns your ambulance.



It has been an interesting morning, and you know this because I am actually submitting this blog first thing this morning (ok, maybe not first thing...but you know what I'm talking about).  I have been out of my office since last Friday, and I am just now catching up on my rss feeds.  Now, like many of you I have multiple RSS feeds dedicated to the fields of fire and EMS, as well as to the Healthcare field.  As you can image, these feed boxes were jam packed with articles that have circulated since last Friday and just ready for me to read over their words.  There were several good articles, some that were just funny, and one that left me thinking I needed to watch Silence of the Lambs again (strange HUH!). 

In looking over these RSS feeds, I found a common topic that I thought was interesting.  Now, what was intersting was the topic was common, but the outcomes were anything but.  As you can tell by the little picture I included with this version it has to do with ambulances, more specifically the ambulance services.  Evidently, as healthcare continues to define itself, the thoughts of how the EMS system should run also changes to fit/transform to the newest definition.  The key...who will own my ambulance.  In communities where private ambulance service has been running the show, people are showing interest in the town/fire department running the service.  In towns where the community or fire department runs the EMS response, they are talking about privatization.  What this tells me is that there really isn't one way or another that is better (non-scientific, personal opinion). 

So I ask you to comment below...not with personal opinion though!!! Who has the facts?  Have their been any studies completed and if so do you know where the results can be located.

Take Care and Stay Safe

The Combomedic
twitter.com/dsblev

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

EMS Today 2013 - Social Media Style

EMS Today 2013 is has ended and everybody is returning back to their homes in spite of mother natures attempt to infiltrate Washington DC with #snowquester2013.  Don't you just love how so many take a name and quickly rebrand it into another name.  Now I must say, EMS Today 2013 was a massive success...and I wasn't even there.  The 2013 JEMS Conference and Exposition was held at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in the center of the Nation's Capital, Washington DC.  Kicking off the conference with the National Association of EMS Educators Instructor I course, the main conference was held from 5-9 March 2013. AJ Heightman, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services (www.jems.com) providing the momentous kick-off necessary for a conference of this size.  Coming forward in a three piece suit, Mr. Heightman spoke to the "Changing History, Unchangeable Dedication" and brought the attendees through the years and provided awards to thos...

Mentor Leadership

( www.amazon.com ) Tonight I began reading the Tony Dungy book "The Mentor Leader".  Everybody that has small knowledge of the NFL knows about Tony Dungy and his reputation and I can only wish that I was part of the Colts organization to be a fly on the wall to hear just a few words of his leadership style.  While I am still just in the beginning of this book I have already started to look at things slightly different than I did before.  So I started to look in my history and see who my mentors have been, or who they might currently be.  I looked at why I chose them, or why I considered them my mentors and I can really see that I jumped right into those because of their ability to get me where I want to be.  In the beginning of the book Coach Dungy states that most people look to get their leadership skills from those that have awesome bank accounts or tremendous winning percentages, but never for the way a leader is viewed, for what they really do....

Bystanders dive in to save 6 year old.

I can't help it...I really enjoy hearing stories about people taking the risks associated with helping others. Now, I completly advocate for calculated risks, and in this event the bystanders thought the risk of their lives versus that of a 6 year old child was a good exchange, and for the 6 year old it was. Now professional rescuers are looking for those that entered the raging river in hopes of a successful outcome. South Dakota rescuers are attempting to mitigate minimal visability from a foam riddled river looking for the two individuals who rescued a boy. As reporters state, the Foam is a by-product of chemical agents that are leaked into the river causing grave circumstances for the two. Now those very same responders are presuming those two individuals have drown in the icy river in which they were able to extricate the 6 year old from. (http://www.emsworld.com/news/10894951/woman-man-drown-in-icy-south-dakota-river) Take Care and Stay Safe! Combomedic twitter...