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Couldn't have picked a region where EMS is more intertwined with fire...
Big cities who have seperate EMS from FD.
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Couldn't have picked a region where EMS is more intertwined with fire...
Jim37F
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In other words the Too long, Did not read version of my post
However I've wondered about San Diego, is EMS separate there it is it run by the FD like LA and Orange Counties?
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Austin-Travis County EMS is a 3rd service. Cover the city of Austin and Travis County.
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Most major cities in NJ
Trenton, Newark, Camden, Jersey City, New Brunswick, Technically sorta-kinda Atlantic City
Elizabeth is probably the biggest fire-based system, but they have a good system, one of the few
Most major cities in NJ
Trenton, Newark, Camden, Jersey City, New Brunswick, Technically sorta-kinda Atlantic City
Elizabeth is probably the biggest fire-based system, but they have a good system, one of the few
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OR maybe that's why I said it =]
In other words the Too long, Did not read version of my post
However I've wondered about San Diego, is EMS separate there it is it run by the FD like LA and Orange Counties?
San diego City is run by R/M which houses its rigs in city fire stations, pretty sure its dual medic, Then there are many smaller department within San Diego county which either contract ALS transport of do it themselves. Nobody has the same LACoFd model where a squad follows up with a BLS ambulance. I stopped wondering about San Diego city when I found ouy R/M pays their medics 9/hr.
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If this is just in reference to California then feel free to ignore me, but we use the ALS squad BLS ambulance system. Not that I necessarily want to be associated with LACo.
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SFFD also hires H3 non suppression medics
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I work in Sussex County, but the whole state (all three counties) uses the same model. The only paramedics in Delaware are associated with one of the three counties, the State Trooper helicopter, or the Lifenet helicopter.
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Do you have medics doing ALS IFTs as well or RNs ala California?
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Great question. I think a couple private IFT services may have recently started having medics, but I'm honestly not sure. I know ground critical care units often come down from Christiana Hospital up north and they have RN staffing. For the day to day IFT stuff though, I couldn't tell you with certainty what they run.
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Some of us CA private IFTs do use Medics for ALS and Nurses/RTs for CCT. Of course not everyone does this (I think it's Orange County where they won't even allow medics to work private IFTs)
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Most of the counties in North Carolina have separate transporting ALS from the Fire department, including the large cities. Buncombe County EMS for Asheville, Medic for Charlotte, Forsyth County EMS for Winston-Salem, etc.
Worcester, MA has all of their EMS done by the paramedics of UMass Medical Center. Manchester, NH has AMR. New Orleans has third service municipal EMS. Albuquerque has a weird system where the fire department runs the call on scene but then a Presbyterian Health ambulance will transport the patient.
Fort Worth uses Medstar which I've heard good things about. Tulsa and Oklahoma City use EMSA. Fort Collins CO uses Poudre Valley Health Services. A lot of the towns surrounding Denver use Rural Metro.
Worcester, MA has all of their EMS done by the paramedics of UMass Medical Center. Manchester, NH has AMR. New Orleans has third service municipal EMS. Albuquerque has a weird system where the fire department runs the call on scene but then a Presbyterian Health ambulance will transport the patient.
Fort Worth uses Medstar which I've heard good things about. Tulsa and Oklahoma City use EMSA. Fort Collins CO uses Poudre Valley Health Services. A lot of the towns surrounding Denver use Rural Metro.
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PrimeCare has some DE medics. St Fran and Christiana in Willmington also use medics for IFT. Heart to Hart and Lifestar have applied for DE ALS licenses but I don't believe either have been granted yet. (It's a big political mess)
You may see Lifestar medics doing monitor/IV transports from Nanticoke, but they're MD medics running to MD hospitals.
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There are less than a handful of Fire-based ALS transport departments in NC (I work for one of them).
Regardless, EMS in NC trickles down from the County level, either as a Public Utility Model or contracted 3rd service.