{"id":212,"date":"2017-03-09T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T15:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/?page_id=212"},"modified":"2022-07-21T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-21T18:52:51","slug":"emergency-medical-services-ems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/departments\/departments-e-g\/emergency-medical-services-ems\/","title":{"rendered":"Emergency Medical Services (EMS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"soliloquy-outer-container\" data-soliloquy-loaded=\"0\"><div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-736_1\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade soliloquy-fade soliloquy-controls-active soliloquy-arrows-active soliloquy-default-slider soliloquy-theme-base no-js\" style=\"max-width:960px;margin:0 auto 20px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-736_1\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides soliloquy-wrap soliloquy-clear\"><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-1 soliloquy-id-737 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-737\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2019\/06\/IMG_0566-960x300_c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0566\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/li><\/ul><\/div><noscript><div class=\"soliloquy-no-js\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;height:0;line-height:0;opacity:0;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-no-js-image skip-lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/60\/2019\/06\/IMG_0566.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0566\" \/><\/div><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/ems\/\">EMS <\/a>provides care in the pre-hospital environment for patients with medical emergencies and delivers patients to the closest and most appropriate health care medical facility by providing non-emergency convalescent and ambulance for non-ambulatory patients.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>2022-2023 Workload Measures<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n1. Number of EMS calls each month<br \/>\n2. Number of patients transported each month<br \/>\n3. Total time that units are not available monthly<br \/>\n4. Number of miles driven<br \/>\n5. Report and monitor the percentage of scheduled unit hours that are produced<br \/>\n6. Monthly ambulance billing revenue<br \/>\n7. Average emergency response time<br \/>\n8. Percentage of chute times (wheels rolling) that are under 90 seconds (0700-2259)<br \/>\n9. Percentage of chute times that are under three minutes (2300-0659)<br \/>\n10. Report monthly Unit Hour Utilization (percentage of time ambulances are between dispatched and in<br \/>\nservice)<br \/>\n11. Number of times out-of-county ambulance services respond to calls in Alamance County<br \/>\n12. Number of times that Alamance County EMS responds to calls in other counties<br \/>\n13. Number of times that Alamance Rescue transports patients as ambulance service<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Updated 7\/20\/22<\/span><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-42\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-42\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th colspan=\"2\" class=\"column-1\">2022-2023 Performance Management Goals<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Goals<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Progress<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">1) All cardiac arrest calls will be reviewed with the responding crews by the EMS Quality Manager.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">2) To increase the annual survival rate of &gt;30% for all witnessed, shockable cardiac arrests.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">3) The EMS Service's Clinical Quality Management Program will review 10% of all completed patient<br \/>\ncare reports to ensure delivery of high-quality outcomes and safety.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">4) EMS will work towards and apply for the 2022 Mission: Lifeline EMS Recognition for Excellent<br \/>\nSTEMI (heart attack) care.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">5) The EMS training department will offer each employee a total of 4 hours of cardiac arrest care training.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">6) EMS will increase the number of CIT certified paramedics by 8.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">7) The EMS department will review and update its standard operating guidelines.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">8) EMS will conduct yearly N95 fit testing on all EMS employees.<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><em>In Progress<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-42 from cache -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EMS provides care in the pre-hospital environment for patients with medical emergencies and delivers patients to the closest and most appropriate health care medical facility by providing non-emergency convalescent and&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/departments\/departments-e-g\/emergency-medical-services-ems\/\"><span> Emergency Medical Services (EMS)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":201,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wpm_timeformat":"","_wpm_styles":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-212","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 01:58:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alamance-nc.com\/pmp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}