Title
Accept and approve the Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016-17.
Report
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the Board of Supervisors:
Accept and approve the Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016-17.
SUMMARY:
The County of Monterey Emergency Medical Services Agency (EMS) completed its annual report for Fiscal Year 2016-17 activities of the Agency and EMS System
DISCUSSION:
Sections of the Monterey County EMS Agency Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2016-17 highlight two of the larger, interrelated initiatives of the year. One is the effort to implement a single, countywide EMS Data System that will allow meaningful quality improvement activities and benchmarking throughout the EMS System. The other is working closely with EMS Providers to help them develop provider-based quality improvement plans and provision of training and focused assistance to help each EMS provider meet the submission and approval deadlines. The report also provides highlights of other EMS Agency's accomplishments, including rebuilding, improving the practices and infrastructure of the EMS System, introducing clinical reporting and enhanced operational reporting, and revising numerous policies and procedures to assure that the Monterey County EMS System provides clinically-sound medical care to the people of Monterey County.
This work supports of the Monterey County Health Department Strategic Plan Initiative Number 3 - Ensure access to culturally and linguistically appropriate, customer friendly, quality health services initiative, it is in support of one or more of the ten essential public health services, specifically: 7-Link people to needed personal health services and assure the provision of health care when otherwise unavailable and 9-Evaluate effectiveness, accessibility, and quality of personal and population-based health services.
OTHER AGENCY INVOLVEMENT:
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