Emergency Medical Service Department - Helping You Help Others
The citizens of California demand high-quality emergency medical services that can only be provided through qualified fire-based EMTs and paramedics. CPF is committed to insuring that EMS services in this state hold to the highest standards with its EMS Department and EMS Committee.
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CPF'S EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
The primary responsibility of the EMS Department is to provide information and assist in research on fire departments and fire-based EMS, in order to improve the lives and working conditions of CPF members. The EMS Department helps CPF affiliates with various components of EMS system operations, including staffing, deployment, transportation, equipment, communications, record keeping, public education, injury prevention and quality assurance.
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CPF AND THE REGULATORY PROCESS
The public expects its firefighters and EMTs to provide the highest quality of care possible. Laws and regulations governing EMS providers must keep this objective in mind, while acknowledging the need for consistent application to insure that fire service EMS is not hampered by excessive bureaucratic oversight.
The EMS Department represents the interests of CPF members on a number of state EMS committees and task forces that recommend statutory and regulatory changes to the state Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA). Many of these changes are suggested without consideration of the working conditions or impact on the EMTs and paramedics who are obligated to them. The CPF representative on these committees works to assure that statute and regulatory recommendations reflect the primary goal of the highest quality of patient care possible, while insuring that EMTs and paramedics work under reasonable regulated conditions and terms.
EMS COMMITTEE
With the help of the EMS committee, the EMS Department works to maintain contact with the issues and needs of the membership. During meetings of the EMS Committee, concerns of specific Districts are brought forward and discussed. State EMS matters are discussed, and position statements are formulated.