Success Stories by Topic: Emergency services

• Mid-Kansas Community Action Program Mission El Dorado Program
  September 2009
  Pools the resources of area service providers, including supplies and volunteer labor to identify, screen and provide service to low-income families in need of minor home repairs.
• Great Basin College Rural Health Outreach Program
  July 2009
  This project aimed to recruit new EMTs, to help rural communities retain new recruits, to provide training, to secure training equipment, and to improve pre-hospital response services in the state of Nevada.
• Protecting the Golden Hour
  May 2009
  The main purpose of the Protecting the Golden Hour project was to develop and implement an adaptable, ongoing system of training, coordination, and accountability among 18 rural emergency medical service (EMS) units in Region 2.
• Trauma Nursing Core Course
  July 2008
  Greater Northwest Emergency Medical Services improved the quality of regional trauma care through an education outreach plan for rural nursing staff.
• Midwest Medical Center- Galena, Illinois
  February 2008
  Midwest Medical Center was the first Critical Access Replacement Hospital to open its doors in the State of Illinois. They overcame a tremendous amount of challenges to improve and save health care in this small rural and tourist community.
• Washington State Emergency Medical and Trauma Care Services
  December 2007
  Established to promote a system of emergency medical and trauma care services, the Washington Emergency Medical and Trauma Care Services offers timely and appropriate delivery of emergency medical treatment for people with acute illness and traumatic injury, and recognizes the changing methods and environment for providing optimal emergency care throughout the state of Washington.
• Kansas Trauma Program
  November 2007
  The Kansas Trauma Program is a partnership between public and private organizations to address the treatment and survival of critical injuries throughout the state.
• Trauma Care in Rural Kentucky
  November 2007
  Dr. Jeffrey Coughenour, a trauma surgeon at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital in Lexington, is working with the Kentucky State Office of Rural Health, along with ambulance services and small hospitals in central, eastern and southern parts of the state, in an effort to establish a regional trauma care system.
• Level One Cardiac Partnership-Lincoln Hospital, Davenport, Washington
  October 2007
  Shares a personal story at Lincoln Hospital which is a good example of a cardiac partnership between a rural hospital and an urban hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab.
• EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
  September 2007
  Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
• Illinois 24/7 Suicide Prevention-Crisis Network
  August 2007
  The Regional Behavioral Health Network has established a 24-hour toll-free crisis line and mobile crisis program to improve access to care, service quality and staff moral.
• EMS Live @ Nite
  June 2007
  EMS Live @ Nite is an interactive video conferencing program to help educate volunteer emergency medical services personnel who don’t have easy access to training sites.
• Angel Flight West: A Higher Level of Kindness
  June 2007
  Angel Flight West provides free, private air transportation for people with medical and other needs.
• U.S. Pacific Islands: Helping Hearts
  June 2007
  The purpose of this program is to provide the U.S. Pacific Islands region with automatic external defibrillators (AEDs), and educate to residents so they can train others in their use and save more lives.
• Guide for Preparing Medical Directors Project
  January 2007
  The goal of the project is to develop the Guide for Preparing Medical Directors into an electronically delivered, mentor-supported, self-study program to train medical oversight physicians in rural, frontier, and wilderness locations.
• Huron-Sanilac Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Project
  January 2007
  The Huron-Sanilac Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Volunteer Recruitment and Retention Project will aggressively seek to reverse the declining number of active EMS providers in this rural area of Michigan.
• TelEmergency
  January 2006
  In response to a lack of emergency care and physicians in many rural areas of Mississippi, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMC) has developed and directs the operation of a rural health telemedicine initiative called TelEmergency. Rural hospitals have contracted with UMC to allow the Emergency Medicine specialist backup for the nurse practitioners who completed the program and were hired by the local facility. When these nurse practitioners staff the rural Emergency Department, they communicate with Emergency Medicine physicians at UMC via T-1 lines and a sophisticated telemedicine setup.
• Agrasafe
  July 2005
  While it may be impossible to alter the distances between farmers and first response services, AgraSafe recognized the value of offering quality training to first responders, family members, and coworkers.
• Lincoln Primary Care Center Rural Outreach Grant Program
  July 2005
  The partners in this collaboration used grant funds to improve access to care and the coordination of services by creating a secure, online system for primary care providers to access hospitalization records, and by developing a secure, Internet-based system for health care providers to access medical literature.
• Greater Iron County Advanced Life Support Project
  July 2005
  The project's primary goal was to improve and upgrade the prehospital healthcare delivery system in Iron County, Michigan by creating a full-time hospital-based paramedic transportation system to address the dwindling personnel resources, outdated transportation equipment, high cost of paramedic equipment, and the lack of access to a community-based paramedic-training program.
• Montana EMT-I Transition Project
  July 2005
  This network helped rural EMS providers integrate into the community and transition to the new training and care standards set forth in EMT-I.