Hospitals / Medical Practices
Partnerships with EMS can:
- Increase ED census and help meet volume goals
- Improve patient flow
- Improve care of critical patients
The True North Group can help you develop enhanced partnerships to meet these goals. Properly constructed, these relationships can play a role in demonstrating that your ED is meeting community needs, and support the achievement of applicable benchmarks and accreditation standards.
Emergency care has changed dramatically over the last decade. The development of specialty teams around STEMI, Trauma, Stroke, Sepsis and Cardiac Arrest have yielded significant improvements in patient outcomes. Effective integration of EMS into these teams can increase the velocity of these time-sensitive interventions.
Effective EMS partnerships have multiple components:
- continuing education
- clinical rotations for EMS students
- engaged medical director
- empowered EMS coordinator
- targeted support for EMS community outreach
- and more...
