EMS News

During the fall months three things are a certainty. The temperatures start to drop, retailer start the build up for Christmas and the food industry adds pumpkin spice to everything. Unfortunately a surprising percentage of our society has a pumpkin ...

Today, a coalition of states have announced that they have plans to remove the AEMT protocols in their next update in 2015.  In their statement, the coalition’s leader, Massachusetts OEMS Director Bennie Rodriguez, stated “Here in Massachusetts, we do not ...

On January 1, 2014, a little-read portion of the Affordable Care Act will be implemented in Medicare’s CMS bureau, the agency charged with reimbursing ambulance providers for the vast majority of their transports.

Paramedic Justin Newmixon could no longer stand the annoying habits of his partner EMT Jeff Synagoton. Newmixon repeatedly asked for shift and crew assignment changes and was always denied. This morning he cracked and tried to choke his partner in ...

A few weeks back we reported on how Wal-Mart was pilot testing a program to run EMS units out of stores. Now according to some leaked internal emails Costco is also gearing up to be a private EMS provider. Costco ...

What should have been 7 days of really fun instruction turned out to be a waste of time. 14 Brand new FDNY-EMS cadets that were just hired by the city to assist in life threating calls have to retake a ...

Deep in the hollows of a misty Mississippi night, Zack Bagans and his camera crew expected to find something- but what they found in that Vicksberg battlefield-cum-salvage yard was confirmation that the paranormal exists. They had come to Vicksberg to speak with ...

Diane Hanson, Acadian Ambulance HR representative, recently announced that Acadian Ambulance and its corporate siblings would be screening prior social-media posts for signs of instability in employees.

American Medical Response Cuts Hours Citing Obamacare; Joins Regal Cinemas and Carl’s Jr. Ambulance provider American Medical Response today announced that it is going to cut thousands of its EMT-Basic and EMT-Intermediate jobs from full-time 40-hour weeks and overtime to ...

As reported earlier by Duffelblog.com, a group of WWII vets stormed the WWII Memorial in Washington, DC after being told by Park Police that it was off-limits due to the Federal shutdown.