Strategies

20.1 A1 Establish programs with organizations to utilize nontraditional employees as EMS responders (T)

20.1 A2 Facilitate development of regional resources and/or cooperatives (T)

20.1 A3 Integrate support of EMS into rural hospital financing programs (T)

20.1 A4 Integrate information systems and highway safety activities (T)

20.1 A5 Integrate EMS systems into the Safe Communities effort (T)

20.1 A6 Use mobile data technologies that are interoperable with hospital systems (T)

20.1 A7 Require all communication systems to be interoperable with surrounding and state jurisdictions (T)

20.1 B Provide or improve management and decision-making tools

20.1 B1 Develop resource and performance standards unique to the specific rural EMS (T)

20.1 B2 Identify, provide, and mandate efficient and effective methods for collection of necessary EMS data (T)

20.1 B3 Identify and evaluate model rural EMS operations (T)

20.1 B4 Provide evaluation results to elected and administrative officials at the county and local levels (T)

20.1 C Provide better education opportunities for rural EMS

20.1 C1 Utilize technology-based instruction for rural EMS training (P)

20.1 C2 Establish an exchange program to allow rural EMS providers to spend a specified number of hours in urban/suburban systems (E)

20.1 C3 Include principles of traffic safety and injury prevention as part of EMS continuing education (E)

20.1 C4 Require first care training for all public safety emergency response personnel, including law enforcement officers (T)

20.1 C5 Educate rural residents about the availability, capability, and limitations of existing systems (T)

20.1 C6 Provide “bystander care” training programs targeting new drivers, rural residents, truck drivers, Interstate commercial bus drivers, and motorcyclists (T)

20.1 C7 Provide EMS training programs in high schools in rural areas (T)

20.1 D Reduce time from injury to appropriate definitive care

20.1 D1 Improve cellular telephone coverage in rural areas (T)

20.1 D2 Improve compliance of rural 9-1-1 centers with FCC wireless “Phase II” automatic location capability (T)

20.1 D3 Utilize GPS technology to improve response time (T)

20.1 D4 Integrate automatic vehicle location (AVL) and computer-aided navigation (CAN) technologies into all computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems (T)

20.1 D5 Equip EMS vehicles with multi-service and/or satellite-capable telephones (T)