RT Book, Section
A1 Knutsen, Christian C.
A2 Cooney, Derek R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126789848
T1 EMS Personnel
T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071775649
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126789848
RD 2024/04/24
AB Individual  states  regulate  the  education,  certification,  and  licensure  of  their  EMS  providers.  Historically,  the  federal  government  has  support  EMS  development  at  the  state,  regional,  and  local  levels.  The  EMS  Systems  Act  passed  by  Congress  in  1973  created  a  categorical  grant  program  to  support  developing  state  and  regional  EMS  systems  and  led  to  the  distribution  of  more  than  $300  million  for  EMS  research,  planning,  operations,  and  improvement.1  While  the  act  identified  15  essential  elements  of  EMS  systems  (communications,  training,  manpower,  mutual  aid,  transportation,  accessibility,  facilities,  critical  care  units,  transfer  of  care,  consumer  participation,  public  education,  public  safety  agencies,  medical  records,  independent  review  and  evaluation,  and  disaster  linkage),  it  did  not  set  national  standards  how  these  elements  were  to  be  enacted.  In  1974,  the  Robert  Wood  Johnson  Foundation  contributed  an  additional  $15  million  to  44  regional  EMS  project,  marking  one  of  the  largest  private  grants  for  EMS.  Without  a  unified  EMS  model,  states'  EMS  systems  became  significantly  different  from  each  other  and  customized  to  their  needs.