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911/ambulance problems
May 6, 2008 | 10:18 AM
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First thing is obvious here, the Fire Comm needs to go away, way away from here.  Putting aside all jokes for now, this guy is NOT QUALIFIED TO RUN/MANAGE OR DICTATE ANY EMS ISSUES OR POLICY.  He is not, has not, nor will he ever be a Paramedic so why is he managing issues in EMS and Paramedic work.   Obviously, he is doing a poor job, just the same as all previous Firefighter Commissioners have done in past concerning EMS issues.   It makes no sense to place a person in command of something/someone that has never done, nor will he ever do that type of work.  This is what citizens need to know.

 

The city will continue to foul EMS and ambulance deployment as long as they continually place uneducated, ill experienced and re-active rather than PROACTIVE  people in ranks of Administrative commands. 

 

Now, I hear and have read of a young lad in the PFD(A Medic) that has gone out of his way to address concerns with a real solid plan to help PFD EMS with both issues and solutions for the PFD and the City in an educated manner.  He has reached out to and tried to voice all immediate pertinant issues for the people that need to know what is happening here with this.  Will they listen? 

 

I read his document on EMS, it is solid.  The Mayor needs to talk with this guy.  The Mayor should appoint him as the Deputy Commissioner of EMS in the PFD and then you will see changes.  He works in a firehouse off 9th and Roosevelt Blved.

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tcemedic100 read my blog
May 9, 2008 | 11:53 AM

Hello Fox 29, I have been an E.M.T. since 1986 and a Paramedic for more than 10 years and I have had the pleasure to work for PFD as a FSP. I am now working for a just as busy E.M.S system near Philadelphia. The best way some of my peers and I feel to fix the EMS response in Philadelphia is to utilize the private ambulances that are seen in and around the city to the 9-1-1 service. Contract them out. They could handle the basic or non-life threatening calls that come in to the dispatch system. New York city uses the hospital-based ambulances to lighten the call volume for NYEMS. Philadelphia Paramedics then could concentrate on the more serious calls that come in to the system. The private ambulances are staffed with E.M.T.s and even some with Paramedics. The other systems that utilizes priority dispatch is taking a chance that something will not go wrong by delaying E.M.S response. The emergency medical dispatchers can ask the right questions and still not properly assess the patient without physically being there at the call. They cannot take a pulse or blood pressure. Yes, the cotton in the ear and stub toe is the low priority calls and sounds like should not need an emergency ambulance, but I have been on a lot of calls were we get called for something that sounds minor and through a proper exam it turns out to be something serious and I have been the calls where I am taking a patient to the hospital for something minor as a tooth ache and in my coverage area there is a serious call that is delayed the E.M.S. response. Yes, there should be a campaign to the public on
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