Welcome to the Saratoga County Emergency Medical Services Council web
site. Step in and have a look around!
Date and Time site last updated:
06/25/09 01:18 AM
The next meeting
of the Saratoga County EMS Council will be on Monday, August 10th at 7:00 PM
(maybe)
Fall EMS Course Schedule Released
The Fall 2009 EMS Training Courses including an EMT-Original, EMT-Refresher, and Core Content Pilot Refresher
has been released.
Click here or on the Courses tab above to view or
download a copy of the schedule. You can also
click here to download a
copy of the complete course schedule or click
here to download a copy
of the Pilot/CME Core Content schedule. Note that all registrations are now done
on-line through the On-Line Registration tab
above. If you don't find a course that fits your scheduling needs, please
visit nyemtinfo.com for schedules of other
Course Sponsors throughout New York State.
EMS Dispatch to Cut over Week of July 20th
EMS communications with
Dispatch will migrate from the current 155.925 MHz to the EMS Ops 154.355
frequency during the week of July 20th, 2009. All EMS agencies will
be transitioned during this week. Capital Digitronics (the County Radio Repair
Vendor) will contact Corps to arrange reprogramming of mobile radios that they
have programmers for. Corps must arrange reprogramming of portable radios.
Click here for a copy of
the notice distributed by the EMS Council on the cut over.
Council Rescinds Countywide ALS Intercept Agreement
Participants in the Countywide ALS Intercept Agreement initially effected in
2004 have been notified that the Saratoga County EMS Council will rescind the
agreement effective June 1, 2009. Originally effected to facilitate ALS
Intercepts and payment between services for patient care, changes in Medicare
and billing requirements have negated the effectiveness of the agreement.
Participants have been advised to obtain individual agreements with each agency
they intercept with. A sample agreement template based on the earlier
Countywide agreement has
been posted
here and in the downloads section of the Council
website for use by individual agencies.
EMS Coordinator Issues Urgent Swine Flu Advisory
EMS Coordinator Mike McEvoy issued an April 26th advisory to all Saratoga
County EMS Agencies outlining key strategies for EMS agencies (including Fire
Department first responders) to implement for protection of their members and
public health partners in managing patient care. Dispatch level strategies have
also been implements and are included in the outline.
Click here for a copy of the advisory.
We have also established a separate page with other documents we've been asked
to share with you. Click here to link to the
Swine Flu Documents page.
Pager Bid Open to EMS Agencies
The County Fire Paging Initiative undertaken by the Saratoga County Board of
Supervisors in conjunction with the Office of Emergency Services will provide
replacement pagers for Saratoga County Fire Departments on the 155.925 paging
frequency. Migration of all EMS and Fire paging to this frequency is
expected to begin in May 2009. Talk back for EMS units in the field to EMS
Dispatch will be migrated on an agency by agency basis to the EMS Ops frequency
(154.355). The contract awarded by the County to Motorola is open to EMS
agencies who may wish to acquire additional pagers. Pricing is highly
competitive and below current NYS Contract prices. Details are on the
OES web site
which can be linked to by clicking here. Ordering information is
available through OES Director Paul Lent (email:
plent@saratogacountyny.gov).
Dispatch Change to Implement April 1
delayed until May 1
In a memo to all Saratoga County EMS and Fire Services, EMS Coordinator Mike
McEvoy and Fire Coordinator Ed Tremblay outline two Radio Procedure Changes that
will take effect April 1, 2009. The first is a specific "manpower request"
procedure that will assure timely and appropriate assistance by activating both
EMS and Fire with automatic fire department mutual aid when no response is
received after 5 minutes. The second change is implementation of automatic
EMS mutual aid for Priority 3 standbys at structure fire scenes when no response
is received from the ambulance corps of jurisdiction. The full memo can be
downloaded by clicking
here or by visiting the "downloads" tab above.
NOTE: Implementation has been delayed until May 1 by the
Fire Service.
Archived Information
Click here to access information previously posted on this main page that has
been archived.
Contact Information
- Telephone
- 518-383-8608
- FAX
- 518-383-4915
- Snail Mail
- PO Box 624 Ballston Spa, NY 12020
- Electronic mail
- Information:
info@saratogaems.org
