Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 08:58 - General, News, Events, Education & CME
Saturday, April 17, 2010 • 8:00am–5:00pm
Binghamton Regency Hotel & Conference Center
Featured Speakers:
Scott Boeletter, EMT-P, Flight Paramedic
Special Agent Greg Winsor, EMT-P, RN, BSN (F.B.I.)
Lt. Col. John Groves, RN, MSN, CNS -- Trauma
For Further information and to register please see the Attached
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 21:29 - News, Events, Education & CME
Featuring Tim Phalan, BS, NREMT-P
When: Friday February 6, 2010, Basic 12-Lead Acquisition, Saturday February 7, 2010 Advanced 12-Lead EKG Interpretation.
For further information and to register Click here!!!
Friday, December 11, 2009, 07:38 - News
Folks,
I hope this finds you well!! As you are aware we are aggressively in the process of moving into our new location at 2666 Main Street, Whitney Point, NY 13862** PLEASE NOTE our mailing address has NOT Changed. Our New Phone and Fax Numbers are as follows:
Program Agency- 607-634-4131
Regional Council- 607-634-4148
SREMS, Inc. Fax- 607-634-4183 (Not Operational Yet)
Please be patient as we grow...
Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 11:02 - News
Immediate notice:
The SREMS Program Agency received all required funding as of 11am Nov 30, 2009. This will allow the Program Agency to continue support operations to providers, hospitals, PAD organizations and the community as a whole.
The SREMS Office relocation project is again moving ahead. Until December 31, 2009 the current phone numbers and mailing address will remain operational. Reasonable notice will be given regarding the change in contact information when the new office is fully up and running.
During this Office transition please contact the office via the current mediums, for availability of all day to day provider and agency support services. As we move between location certain services may be suspended or delayed. This move will NOT directly impact provider and agency level ePCR operations.
Don't hesitate to contact SREMS Offices regarding questions or concerns.
Friday, November 13, 2009, 10:33 - News, Events
MEMORANDUM
To: All Susquehanna Regional EMS Agencies and Providers
From: Michael F. Washington, Chairperson, Susquehanna Regional Council
Date: November 12, 2009
Re: Cessation of Program Agency Services
This memorandum is to inform you that effective November 30, 2009 Susquehanna Regional Emergency
Medical Services, Inc. (SREMS) will no longer be able to continue operations. We were notified our
contract is currently pending Office of State Comptroller approval contingent upon New York State
Division of Budget (DOB) allocating funds to support it. The Department of Health does not know when DOB will make funds available and SREMS was asked to forward a continuity of operations plan related to the effects of no funding. SREMS conducted a fiscal and operational analysis which concluded that SREMS’s Program Agency funds would be exhausted as of November 30, 2009. Therefore, as of that date, operations would cease. In consequence of the foregoing, the following impact on our region’s EMS system will result from this regrettable but unavoidable shut down:
· Our Electronic Pre-Hospital Care Reporting (ePCR) system will cease to function as a cohesive region wide program. While individual agency-owned workstations will continue to function independently for a time, central server repository of the data produced by these workstations will no longer exist. Therefore there will be no mechanism for collecting and transmitting this data electronically to the DOH, nor will the data be backed-up so that, if an individual workstation fails its data will be lost. In addition, hospital based workstations will be removed from service, as they are Program Agency property, and therefore must be turned over to the DOH.
· We have been notified of the unavailability of sufficient quantities of state issued paper PCRs, creating the very real possibility of an EMS service being unable to fulfill its legal requirement to produce state mandated patient care records.
· The electronic EMS personnel management function imbedded within the ePCR system will cease to function, and provider information will no longer be able to be added or updated. This personnel management function includes: regional EMS provider photo identification cards, Continuing Medical Education tracking, state core content recertification tracking. The personnel management system also tracks medical control facility and physician credentials region wide. All services related to ePCR maintenance, updates, password resets, provider maintenance, and all related services.
· Effective immediately, no new installs of ePCR will occur region wide.
· Regional ALS credentialing will no longer be available.
· We will no longer have the ability to conduct Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement PCR reviews at the service, county, and regional levels, due to the absence of a central repository for data that can be queried and analyzed for this purpose. Agencies will continue to have the responsibility for QA/QI.
If the financial crisis does indeed force SREMS to close, there exists the potential for a genuine public
health crisis in our three-county region as a result of the loss of this administrative, technical, and Quality
Improvement support. In the midst of the current influenza pandemic, which promises to place
unprecedented strain upon our EMS system, this may well be a recipe for utter disaster.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 08:50 - News, Events, Education & CME
On October 28, Governor Patterson issued an executive order declaring a disaster emergency in the state in regard to the novel H1N1influenza pandemic. This order, among other things, temporarily waives certain sections of the State Education Law, thereby allowing certain healthcare providers, Advanced EMT-CCs and Paramedics among them, to administer influenza vaccine (both novel H1N1 and seasonal) at County Health Department-operated “points of dispensing” (immunization clinics, or “PODs”, as they have become known).
The executive order specifically requires that all of these “emergency vaccinators” must receive “training in techniques, indications, precautions, contraindications, infection control practices, and use of personal protective equipment sufficient to provide the basic level of competence for such tasks, as determined by the Commissioner of Health after consultation with the Commissioner of Education”. Per the clarification provided by the NYS EMS Bureau, this training is to be provided by county health departments, utilizing a curriculum provided via the NYS DOH.
While this curriculum has yet to arrive, it is expected this week, and we want to provide the training as soon as possible thereafter so that AEMTs can be used to supplement other healthcare providers at what will be an escalating number of PODs throughout the County (as increasing supplies of H1N1 vaccine arrive over the coming weeks). Therefore, we have scheduled the training as follows:
Wednesday November 18
6:00 until 8:00 PM
Broome County Health Department
225 Front Street, Binghamton
A light dinner will be provided for participants
CME Credit approval from SREMS REMAC is pending
We will also be providing a short overview and training on the SureVent® disposable automatic transport ventilator, which is currently carried on the Broome County Emergency Medical Support (MCI) Trailer.
Please note that attendance at this training does not obligate AEMTs to provide service as vaccinators, but information will provided as to how those who wish to can proceed.
Those who wish to attend this program are requested to pre-register by calling 607-778-2865 and leaving a message for Linda, or by e-mailing FLU@co.broome.ny.us.
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