Re: PEMSS Re: Non Panhandle Emergency Medical Services System Providers?

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As a member of PEMSS you already have a mutual aid agreement in place, or

should. This was done approx. 1 year ago. I do not believe there are any

providers in the PEMSS system that did not or have not signed the agreement.

fritchemsdirector wrote:I have been getting emails

telling me I need to stick with PEMSS,

etc. I want to say I have NO intention of pulling out of the

system. I want to go to other PEMSS providers and try to get their

staff to come over to Fritch. We are again in need of assistance,

and I want to tap outside resources. It is much easier to get

someone on the truck who is already familiar with the PEMSS system

and who has a medical control number.

Believe me, if I had any intention of pulling out of the system, I

would not have spent 10 + hours making protocol books today for the

service!

I also was looking to see if we needed any mutual aid agreements,

like we have to use back home. I guess Dumas would be the only one I

need. I think it would be beneficial, if we could share volunteers

as a coop between services, thus my email is targeted to rural

providers. I know the City services, like AMS, Borger, etc., have

full time jobs & probably couldn't spend much time up here. I am

going to be running an ad seeking help, with PEMSS system experience

preferred. If I can generate some revenue, then we may consider

hiring a part time paid crew, and would want to tap area resources,

outside of Fritch.

Everyone is assuming by the post that we are contemplating a

pullout. That is not the case. I am looking at ways to get the

funding we need for the 2007 requirements in the new protocols.

jh

> > I have been a paramedic for 23 years. I started as a volunteer

in

> Panhandle

> > (your neighbor to the SE). PEMSS, its regional medical

direction,

> and its

> > regional communication system have been the backbone of EMS in

that

> region.

> >

> >

> > Later, I worked with SPEMS in Lubbock. Like PEMSS, SPEMS offers

> regional

> > medical control and a regional communication system.

> >

> > I have worked in areas where there was little, if any,

cooperation

> within

> > the region.

> >

> > Give me a regional system any day!

> >

> > It has been my experience in both PEMSS and SPEMS that those

> services that

> > chose to be outside the system had " control " issues. In fact,

one

> director

> > stated that, " I don't need anybody else knowing what goes on over

> here. "

> >

> > The benefits of participating in PEMSS far outweigh any benefits

of

> being a

> > " lone wolf " .

> >

> > R. Black

> > Chairperson

> > Public Safety Education

> > Del Mar College

> >

> > Non Panhandle Emergency Medical Services

> System

> > Providers?

> >

> > If anyone is not a member of the PEMSS system in the Panhandle,

> please

> > email me off the list at fritchemsdirector@y...

> >

> > I am curious to see how many providers, especially rural ones,

are

> not

> > part of the PEMSS system, and if they are not, why.

> >

> > I am not saying we are pulling out of PEMSS, but want to see what

> the

> > demographics are of rural providers, and whether or not PEMSS is

> used

> > in their area.

> >

> > Thanks

> > jh

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