Emergency Medical System news and information

Three people are dead after a plane transporting a medical patient crashed in the backyard of a suburban Chicago home.
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Visits to hospital emergency departments increased to an all-time high of 136 million in 2009, according to estimates released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This represents almost a 10% increase from the 2008 figure of 123.8 million.
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Rural communities are at the center of an effort to broaden the role of emergency medical personnel in healthcare by giving specially trained paramedics the ability to work as primary caregivers in selected situations and settings.
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Dr. Sandra Schneider, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians, explains the motives behind the group's new "Just 2%" public relations campaign with Modern Healthcare Editor David Burda. Schneider also comments on the impact of healthcare reform on emergency-room use and on...
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The nation's hospital groups have sent letters to the CMS urging the agency to maintain its current policy on applying the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, to hospital inpatients.
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When the patient-centered medical home care-delivery model arrived at the industry's doorstep a few years back, the concern by some was that the concept's potential for savings would come at the expense of medical specialists who would see fewer patients. But as data from pilot medical home...
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Budget cuts at federal, state and local levels are threatening the country's ability to respond to public health emergencies at basic levels, says a report from Trust for America's Health and funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Just a small percentage of low- and middle-income countries' healthcare budgets are allocated toward the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases even though such illnesses are expected to account for 69% of global deaths by 2030, according to a paper being published on TheLancet.com.
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Washington, D.C., has been and remains the epicenter of the healthcare reform law. Washington, Mo., however, may offer proof that the law can bring about major delivery reform.
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The director of New Orleans' emergency medical services has resigned after reports of moonlighting at a Texas medical device company whose leading product is used in the city's ambulances.
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