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system of care that serves the community: Emergency Medical Service
(EMS) is a vital public service,
as important to your community as the police or fire department.
But surprisingly, few Americans understand
how the EMS system works or what role it plays.
Emergency Medical Services is a system of care for victims of sudden
and
serious illness or injury. This system
depends on the availability and coordination of many different
elements,
ranging from an informed public capable of recognizing medical
emergencies to a
network of hospitals capable of providing highly specialized care to
the most
seriously ill or injured. Local dispatch
centers, ambulance corps, rescue squads, and pre-hospital emergency
department
personnel are some of the critical elements necessary for the EMS
system to
work.
Over the past 30 years,
the efforts of EMS providers at all levels have helped make our EMS
system the
most advanced in the world. But despite
its remarkable progress, the EMS system still faces the challenge of
declining
support for volunteers and EMS programs at State and Federal
levels.
EMS Week, which occurs in May each year, is
the ideal time to highlight how EMS makes a crucial difference in the
lives of
Americans.
If you would
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