Emergency Medical Services, like other first response fields, have been facing a number of new challenges since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. But looming staffing shortages, thought to be nearly a decade away from critical levels, have skyrocketed in the past 18-months, leaving EMS providers scrambling to keep up with demand. On top of…
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Hidden Costs: How Police Reform Could Change the Shape of Other Public Safety Agencies
By Matt Zavadasky Senior Associate, CPSM Chief Strategic Integration Officer, MedStar Mobile Healthcare 2020 presented a number of new challenges to the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) world, pushing paramedic and fire services to overhaul many longstanding practices. With every day delivering new findings on COVID-19 and how it may impact communities, chiefs; union officials; city…
Emergency Medical Workers Are Integral to the Fight Against Coronavirus. Just a Few Decades Ago, America’s EMS System Didn’t Even Exist
As seen in TIME: EMS Week, which takes place in 2020 from May 17-23, is an annual time to recognize the life-saving efforts of emergency medical services personnel. While celebratory events won’t take place in person this year, EMS personnel are getting more recognition than usual: even before EMS week, virtually and during daily cheers…
CPSM’s Zavadsky Leads EMS Response to COVID-19 Pandemic
CPSM Senior Associate Matt Zavadsky has been working in emergency medical services for 41 years, but the nature of his work is thrusting him into the spotlight in a unique way this year as our nation confronts the COVID-19 pandemic. Zavadsky is well-positioned to know what is happening in emergency medical response services on a…
The Impact of COVID-19 on Local Emergency Medical Services Providers
By Matt Zavadsky, MS-HSA, NREMT The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our world forever. These are unprecedented times, and virtually every aspect of local governance and service delivery has been impacted. Perhaps one of the service delivery models most impacted by the coronavirus is your local emergency medical services (EMS) system. Whether your EMS service is…
CPSM Provides Recommendations for Charlevoix EMS Program
In 2018, CPSM delivered a comprehensive list of recommendations for the Emergency Medical Services Program in the City of Charlevoix.