EMS local officials training

PADUCAH — Providing emergency medical services to your community is an awesome task and responsibility. With many local governments now facing severe financial constraints, providing essential public safety programs such as EMS is becoming more and more difficult each budget cycle. Reductions in Medicare payments, Medicaid payment cuts, increased costs of personnel and equipment, and insurance coverage, along with increasing fuel costs, have made the past years an uphill climb for providing emergency medical services for many local governments.

The Kentucky Ambulance Providers Association is again offering an "EMS 101" course at the 2004 Kentucky EMS Conference and Expo in Owensboro, Kentucky. The course is designed to look at three major areas of providing EMS as a local service: Medicaid reimbursement, legal pitfalls, and EMS in crisis. The six hour course will be designed to provide local officials with the basic knowledge to more effectively monitor and provide local EMS operations. The course has applied for 6 hours of HB 810 credit.

The training will be offered as a pre-conference on Sept. 14, 2004 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. CDT. Registration fees are $125 per county, and an unlimited number of individuals from your county can attend under your registration. 

For more information, or to register, please visit the 2004 Kentucky EMS Conference and Expo Internet site at www.hultgren.org/conference or call James Ritchey at (502) 680-0117.

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