EMS training program to increase training and recruitment capabilities of clark county fire district 3. Additional focus on behavior health and substance abuse extension of care capabilities. -…

EMS training program to increase training and recruitment capabilities of clark county fire district 3. Additional focus on behavior health and substance abuse extension of care capabilities. - clark county fire district 3 proposes to promote advancement in EMS by improving our EMS training capabilities through the use of technology, current standard of care equipment, and providing additional patient centric provider education on patients with substance abuse or mental health issues. This program will address the needs of several separate populations; EMS professions looking to gain entry into EMS, maintaining current public, interagency, and CCFD3 personnels' state licensure, and persons who are currently experiencing mental health and substance abuse issues. The "EMS training enhancement through the use of technology with a patient centric focus" program will start with an initial investment into building technological infrastructure within CCFD3'S stations that will allow for advanced remote and in-person training at all fire stations. Coinciding with this will be an investment into purchasing dedicated training equipment or replacement of existing training equipment that has reached end of life and is no longer functional. This phase will be completed within 60 days of the program being funded and allow for improved communication, standard of care equipment, enhanced training simulations, and collaboration between personnel for development of training curriculum. In addition to the technological build out collaboration with external agencies will begin with the intent to develop training curriculum with a focus on crisis response, alternative treatments, and post incident follow-up to improve patient outcomes, provide patient centric layers of care, and increase responder capabilities in DE-escalation techniques. Curriculum development would be completed with 90 days of grant funding. A steering committee of internal and external behavior health specialists would be created to guide curriculum assessment and improvements with quarterly meetings. Outcomes would be assessed by the clark county medical program directors office covering patient satisfaction and appropriateness hospital transports. Continuum of training for the remainder of project time period would have several components, selection of internal candidates for receiving paramedic education with the goal of obtaining their state EMS license as a paramedic to increase ALS service coverage, providing intravenous therapy and supraglottic airway courses for entry or advancement into EMS, and maintaining their existing EMS licensure through the clark county medical program directors continuing education program and advanced cardiac or basic life support courses, and facilitated or attending EMS conferences for advanced education in EMS. These will be monitored using electronic reporting systems for easy documentation and retention of training and credentials. The final component of this program is a development of a robust quality improvement and quality improvement program that will use lean and 6 sigma methods for collecting grant related data in addition to patient centric data as IT relates to washington EMS information system (WEMSIS) and the national EMS information system (NEMSIS). This will be monitored for success based on grant reporting capabilities and monitoring of submission scores within the WEMSIS system.