EMS1 Daily News

Amid preliminary 2024 data showing more than 3,100 overdose deaths, 79% involving opioids, the Department of Health’s new tool directs residents to free naloxone statewide

Tonawanda Supervisor Emminger says it’s still moving forward amid criticism as Twin City Ambulance continues coverage without a formal deal

Volunteer "patients" with mock injuries, victims of a simulated bleacher collapse, helped University of Iowa’s Stead Family Children’s Hospital rehearse rapid triage and stabilization protocols

BridgeValley CTC’s repurposed ambulance delivers mobile EMS training to rural students

EMS transported multiple Auburn Correctional Facility officers and staff with dizziness, nausea and headaches after contact with inmate mail and cellblock air

Paramedic Grace Denny says every medic faces a weekly violent encounter as unions warn EMS workers are four times more likely to be injured

Naloxone will now sit alongside AEDs, CPR masks and Stop The Bleed kits at six park kiosks and municipal sites in Windham

Peer-voted and honored at the county commissioners meeting, the Lenoir native became a paramedic at 20, helps recruit and mentor new providers

Mercer County commissioners approved $100,000 apiece now, plus $50,000 annually for three years, from the $2.3 million opioid settlement fund

A letter from Office of EMS Director Gam Wijetunge informed NEMSAC members that their appointments had ended

Funded by $1.9M in city support, plus foundation seed money and community donations, the Danville Life Saving Crew's new station aims to drop average responses from 10 to 8 minutes

After a heart attack, a 72-year-old waited five hours at Amberwell Atchison for a paramedic ambulance until Jackson County EMS arrived from Topeka

Alpena Firefighter/Paramedic Abby Smith is one of only a handful of women riding rough stock in Michigan

The St. Charles City Council would add firefighters, build new stations and discontinue the city’s ambulance service in favor of expanded coverage by St. Charles County Ambulance District

Paid over three years, the $10K bonus aims to fill 11 vacancies in Kent County amid "bonus hopping" concerns

The film, starring Rainn Wilson and Lil Rel Howery, throws viewers into a wild 24-hour paramedic shift marked by trauma, laughter and truth

With staffing unsustainable, the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office is phasing out its E-unit

Carver EMS is Massachusetts’ first to use OneDose, giving per-diem crews real-time protocols, dosing and documentation to standardize care and cut errors

Full-time EMTs, paramedics and other EMS leaders can get $1,000 in travel funds, complimentary ReSS registration and a year of AHA membership

Lake County Fire Rescue and First Response Training Group graduated 16 firefighters from an accelerated paramedic program