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I'm trying to be a good alum and help a current student get a campus EMS group off the ground. The school is 2000 students with a campus in an urban area with pretty short response times for ALS Fire/EMS.

If you have any experience with this sort of thing, please drop me a line either here or PM. I'm hoping to gather some previous experience so we can do this efficiently.
 
Are you trying to get it started as a first response non-transport EMS service or one capable of transporting? An ambulance service may donate an ambulance if you ask nicely and put a "donated by" logo on it.

I suggest contacting the National Collegiate EMS Foundation to help get it started, they have much more experience than I can give you.

http://www.ncemsf.org/resources/new-startup-resources

here's an example of the "donated by" logo on Mass Maritime's ambulance

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I'm trying to be a good alum and help a current student get a campus EMS group off the ground. The school is 2000 students with a campus in an urban area with pretty short response times for ALS Fire/EMS.

If you have any experience with this sort of thing, please drop me a line either here or PM. I'm hoping to gather some previous experience so we can do this efficiently.

Happy to help, I have a lot of resources that I'm happy to share, just let me know
 
I was involved in my collegiate EMS at a school about the same size and same response times for ALS.

PM me for more info
 
Better route: disseminate kits, plus train AND MOTIVATE people to do first aid and call for help. If professionals are that close, such an "organic response" with accent on what NOT to do and how to get 911 going plus kits in every lecture hall and class room (and maybe some AEDs?) makes more sense than creating a corps of earnest uncontrolled amateurs.

Maybe the school can offer a mandatory, one unit class for new enrollees?

Maybe the CERT program? But be careful about letting bunch of people loose with CERT's disaster-oriented first aid, or its tier one first responder training, loose without tight reins.

The issue of on-campus responders used to come up here more often, but the usual outcome/truth is that any system such as people envision it, with Gators and uniforms and equipment caches and radios, involves money, hired professionals (to maintain records, maintain equipment, provide medical control, proved and update protocols, and more), plus legal expenses, is not a reality.

A disseminated "training and kits" system eliminates most of that (someone has to do the training and keep the kits accounted for and current) but gives you bang for for buck and creates a cohort of people interested in first aid and spread everywhere.
 
Better route: disseminate kits, plus train AND MOTIVATE people to do first aid and call for help. If professionals are that close, such an "organic response" with accent on what NOT to do and how to get 911 going plus kits in every lecture hall and class room (and maybe some AEDs?) makes more sense than creating a corps of earnest uncontrolled amateurs.

Maybe the school can offer a mandatory, one unit class for new enrollees?

Maybe the CERT program? But be careful about letting bunch of people loose with CERT's disaster-oriented first aid, or its tier one first responder training, loose without tight reins.

The issue of on-campus responders used to come up here more often, but the usual outcome/truth is that any system such as people envision it, with Gators and uniforms and equipment caches and radios, involves money, hired professionals (to maintain records, maintain equipment, provide medical control, proved and update protocols, and more), plus legal expenses, is not a reality.

A disseminated "training and kits" system eliminates most of that (someone has to do the training and keep the kits accounted for and current) but gives you bang for for buck and creates a cohort of people interested in first aid and spread everywhere.

A lot of schools have EMS squads that do just fine, a funding option might be the Athletic Department if they do stand by for games. Polo shirts embroidered with "XYZ University EMS" aren't that big of a uniform commitment, you don't need to go full out with button down shirts and 50 different patches on it. Campus police might be able to help you out radio/dispatch wise, many campus police departments have EMT officers that can respond to medical calls so they may like the idea of having student help.
 
To be clear I am only playing an advisory roll as someone who knows what the local EMS landscape looks like.

First response and standby only. No transporting, all done by EMTs. Recently the college health center decided to stop operating after 8pm, so that's when they will go into service. Currently the college pays AMR to provide an ALS crew at any function where there are going to be more than a 100 students or so. I think that this group could best market itself as a cheaper solution to that, which is more inline with the college's needs than emergency response.

What I am currently looking for are examples of how similar groups have justified themselves to the school to get funding. I am not too worried about getting SOPs together since so many schools have them available online, there is no reason to reinvent the wheel so long as credit is given.

So if anyone has access to a sample proposal from their startup process, I am all ears.
 
good call, transporting is probably unnecessary for the situation and would add a whole lot more complexity and cost.
 
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