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Regional
EMS Plan - FY2010 |
| The Regional
EMS Plan provides strategies and initiatives
to help guide the regional council Board of
Directors and staff in areas which need
improvement or require new CSEMS Council
involvement over a multi-year period. |
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Regional
Trauma Triage Plan - FY2010 |
| The Regional
Trauma Triage Plan provides a uniform set of
proposed criteria for prehospital and
inter-hospital triage and transport of
trauma patients in the Central Shenandoah
EMS Council region. The development and
monitoring of these criteria is performed by
the State Trauma Triage Performance and
Improvement Committee which is a sub
committee of the Governors Advisory Board’s
Trauma System Oversight and Management
Committee and the CSEMS Council Medical
Control Review Committee. |
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Ambulance
Restocking by Hospitals Policy -
FY2010 |
| This policy
pertains to all participating licensed EMS
agencies and all licensed EMS vehicles
operated by these agencies, and all
participating hospitals within the Central
Shenandoah EMS Region. The policy
provides a means of maintaining essential
emergency medical supplies on regional EMS
ambulances through a one-for-one exchange
system with area hospital emergency
departments and hospital pharmacies.
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Related:
Regional Ambulance Restocking
Agreement -
FY2010
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Ambulance
Patient Destination Policy |
| This policy
pertains to all licensed EMS agencies
providing Class B (Basic Life Support), C
(Advanced Life Support) and D (Specialized
Life Support) ambulance transportation.
The policy provides for a defined,
consistent policy for the destination of
ambulance patients consistent with quality
patient care and established regional
medical protocol. |
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CSEMS
Council Standard Contract |
| The intent
and purpose of the contract is to establish
an agreement with a qualified vendor to
provide technical assistance and services to
the Virginia Department of Health, Office of
Emergency Medical Services (OEMS), an agency
of the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide
services as a regional EMS council at the
regional level. This will also allow for
greater access to services by providers and
agencies within the regional communities.
The state designated Regional Emergency
Medical Services Councils are more familiar
with EMS providers, agencies, EMS
physicians, nurses and other contributors
within their designated service area and can
provide the most appropriate services to
meet the needs of their communities.
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Hospital
Diversion Protocols |
| This policy
applies to all acute care hospitals and EMS
agencies providing ambulance transportation
as defined in the Virginia EMS Regulations.
The policy maintains an orderly, systematic
and appropriate distribution of emergency
patients transported by ambulances during a
single or multiple hospital diversion
situation. |
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Mass
Casualty Incident Plan - FY2010 |
| The goal of
the Central Shenandoah Emergency Medical
Services Council (CSEMS) Mass Casualty
Incident Plan is to prepare on a regional
basis for a unified, coordinated and
immediate emergency medical services (EMS)
mutual aid response by pre-hospital and
hospital agencies to, and the effective
emergency medical management of, the victims
of any type of Mass Casualty Incident (MCI).
It includes patients who are involved in any
emergency evacuation of any health care
facility in the CSEMS Council region and/or
any such facility outside the region that is
a signatory to the CSEMS MCI Plan’s
Memorandum of Understanding. |
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