MOA for EMS personnel

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MOA for EMS Personnel

The Department of State Health Services (DSHS) is issuing another MOA

to acquire EMS-trained personnel to provide non-ambulance support

services in the event of a disaster in Texas. This is a new MOA is

not an amendment to the existing ground and/or air ambulance MOA

issued from the DSHS Division of Regulatory Services. DSHS

encourages EMS Providers to consider taking action on this MOA so

that EMS Providers who are assisting in the response to this storm

have a guaranteed payment mechanism for services their staff may be

asked to provide.

Upon signing the MOA, DSHS-licensed EMS providers may be asked to

provide properly trained staff at the rates described in the MOA for

the following:

• Provide emergency medical personnel to provide care on buses

designated to evacuate individuals with medical special needs

(estimated to be from two to five EMS personnel and nursing staff per

bus). Bus evacuees will be primarily from hospitals, nursing homes,

and/or the general public who have special medical needs and/or

require medical oversight during evacuation but do not meet ambulance-

transport criteria.

• Provide field supervision and management of approximately

five to seven deployed EMS ambulances, staffed with EMS personnel,

and who report to the Incident Commander at the assigned staging

area.

• Act as Regional EMS Coordinators who will serve at any level

in the Governor's Division of Emergency Management Incident Command

structure as assigned. This could include an air/ground coordination

team in a Disaster District Committee (DDC), the State Operations

Center (SOC), a Regional Medical Operations Center, or in the

disaster zone, and who will be responsible for managing strike team

leaders, task forces, and some individual EMS vehicles and/or EMS

personnel.

To access the MOA, go to:

http://esbd.cpa.state.tx.us/docs/537/72571_1.doc

Maxie Bishop,LP, State EMS Director