Three new bills in support of statewide EMS providers were passed in the recent legislative session which should provide them ...

Adolescents ages 12 to 17 were the only age group with a significantly increasing trend in opioid overdoses both before the pandemic (2.8 per month, 95% CI 1.4-4.2) and during the pandemic (1.6 ...

The pandemic, however, has aggravated trends that had been building for some time. As EMS usage spiked while COVID-19 spread, staff was stretched thin as the virus ravaged many communities, large ...

Jonathan Studnek, the deputy director of that county’s EMS agency, Medic, said the pandemic brought on the worst vacancy rates he’d seen in his 15 years there.

A former aide to two New York governors already facing charges of acting as an illicit agent of China has pleaded not guilty ...

The partnership between San Diego Fire-Rescue and private EMS provider Falck has enabled SD to overcome staffing shortages created during the pandemic and meet response-time goals more effectively.

Another symptom of the pandemic appeared to be a jump in working fires kindled in the city. Fire-EMS extinguished 71 blazes last year. That is the highest number seen since 2016, when 72 working ...

A lack of EMS volunteers post pandemic has left medical centers looking to fill the gap. Posted . NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. (WKBW) — "Got involved 30 years ago," said Jonathan Schultz, Fire ...

A: EMS workers are bearing the brunt of the pandemic response. With schools reopening once again, it is really starting to appear right now like it is an unmitigated disaster.

Emergency medical services (EMS) encounters for youth opioid overdoses were rising before the COVID-19 pandemic, increased during its onset, and then flattened out, but remained higher than ...

But EMS, since the COVID-19 pandemic began, has been in a state of crisis. The biggest red flag is that there have been over a dozen suicides of EMS workers in New York City alone during the ...