Outstanding article in this month’s Public Management Magazine – the official publication of the ICMA…

https://icma.org/articles/pm-magazine/reimagining-fire-and-paramedic-services-21st-century

Love these quotes in the article:

• “EMS is a healthcare function, not a public safety function.”
• “Analysis of Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) and workload analysis data is critical in understanding your community’s actual risk profile and developing a new service model.”
• “Separating fire protection and prevention services from emergency medical services reduces cost, reduces response times, and improves the overall quality of both services.”

We were part of the CPSM team that worked with the city of Placentia on this model.

Placentia city leaders will be presenting this model at the 2022 ICMA conference in Columbus, OH in September.

We will be part of a 4-hour workshop at the same conference, educating city and county leaders on effective EMS system design.