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The Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania is a multi-hospital consortium based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is claimed to be one of the world's premiere centers of Emergency Medicine and EMS development. It currently ranks sixth for residencies in emergency medicine by reputation. [1]
Basic life support. Basic life support ( BLS) is a level of medical care which is used for patients with life-threatening illnesses or injuries until they can be given full medical care by advanced life support providers (paramedics, nurses, physicians). It can be provided by trained medical personnel, such as emergency medical technicians, and ...
Agencies. Pennsylvania Attorney General. Pennsylvania Auditor General. Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole. Pennsylvania Department of Aging. Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture. Pennsylvania Department of Banking. Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development. Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Pennsylvania Department of Health is a cabinet-level agency in Pennsylvania. It was established in 1905 and later modified by the Administrative Code of 1929. In 1996, the requirement for the Secretary to be a physician was eliminated and the position of Physician General was created.
In 2020 (the latest official statistics available) the PA EMS System responded to a little over 2.2 million requests — with close to 76% of those being for “emergency” assistance.
“The turnover rate in EMS is huge,” said Don DeReamus, legislative committee chair of the Ambulance Association of Pennsylvania. A high turnover rate for EMS workers — 30% — has been ...
Emergency Medical Technician II (EMT-II) (Analogous to EMT-I/85) Emergency Medical Technician III (EMT-III) (Analogous to AEMT/85) Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT) (Established in 2015, follows and is certified via the NREMT testing process) Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic (MICP) (Analogous to Paramedic via NREMT)
The Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs is a cabinet-level agency in the Government of Pennsylvania. [1] The objective of this department is to manage and distribute state and federal funds used to oversee alcohol and drug prevention, intervention and treatment services. “The Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs mission is ...