THE PENINSULAS EMS COUNCIL, INC.

PO Box 2348, Gloucester, VA 23061; (804) 693-6234 Fax: (804) 693-6277

Office Hours: Weekdays  8:30am until 4:30pm (excluding federal and state holidays)

If you encounter any problems while visiting this site, email the Webmaster at evest@vaems.org  (This site last updated 8/18/08)

Agency Links (Ads & Info) By Laws 2008 Meeting Calendar Regional Protocols
Agency Pictures CISM Meeting Minutes Disaster Plan (3/27/08)
Area Jobs (New 07/17/08) Committees PEMS Forms Staff
Awards 2008 EMS Testing Policies & Procedure Training Opportunities
Board of Directors Instructors Only Performance Improvement Va Office of EMS
 Check HERE for a look into PEMS' past at the end of 1987!

INFORMATION RELATING TO EMS ON THE  VIRGINIA PENINSULAS

 Be Informed

PEMS has opened a satellite office at Riverside Tappahannock Hospital, Room 206! The PEMS staff, moreoften Jo Richmond, the Rural EMS Coordinator, will be available Mondays and Wednesdays 10a-9p, and Fridays 10a-4p. The new office number is (804) 443-8600.

NOTICE: Ferno PROFlexx Model 35-X Stretcher Failures reported More Information

New OEMS Training Funds Information
EMS Training Funds presentation

To download funding contracts, tuition reimbursement applications or course rosters, please click here.

PEMS News Bulletin

Protocol Testing Nears

As the PEMS Council prepares for the formal test process, a practice test, designed by Capt. Jason Monk, HFD, is available for ALS Providers
Regional Protocol Testing
 

Proposed Regional Council Redistribution

PEMS Position Paper 2/13/08

OEMS Regional Council Designation Process
Existing Regional Council Map
Proposed Map A 01/3/08

Proposed Map B 1/26/08
Proposed Map C 1/28/08


PROCESS ACTION TEAM
A Process Action Team (PAT) has been been established to evaluate the existing designated regional service areas and recommend the most effective and efficient arrangement of regional service areas.

THE NEXT PAT MEETING:
August 20th, Roanoke

Virginia's  Summer 2008 Bulletin

NHTSA's
The National EMS Scope of Practice Model

 2007 Regional Council Study

PEMS Regional Trauma Triage Plan,  2/07


2008 EMS Symposium Dates

November 12 - 16, 2008
 
November 12 - Pre-conference begins
November 15 - Governor's EMS Awards Banquet
November 16 - Super Sunday!
 
Visit the Office of EMS Web site for a complete list of events during symposium

Regional Training Opportunities

More information can be found on the
Regional Training Webpage

Docs of the Round Table
NNFD Training
9/23 OR 9/24
9a-12p
Register online
www.vaems.org/drt
Recruitment and Retention Workshop
For dates around the state: www.vaems.org/retention
or
call (800) 972-4367
CE Class moving to Riverside Walter Reed! August 28, 6p-8p
Schedule for 2008

CTS Evaluator Training and Retraining:
9/18 - Tappahannock, 7p-10p; 9/20-PEMS, 9a-12a

Protocol Update 2008

Information on the new EZ-IO and the 2008 Protocol Update Power Point Can be found HERE

EZ-IO image

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR
2008 PEMS REGIONAL AWARD WINNERS

Prehosital Provider Lillian Jones, Mattaponi
EMS Physician Jim Fish, MD, RRMC
Prehospital Educator Sandi Sheridan-Smith, Northumberland
EMS Administrator Jason Monk, Hampton
Contribution to EMS by a Nurse Susan McNulty, MIH
EMS Telecommunications John Gulbranson, Newport News
Contribution to EMS for Children Randy Fisher, Newport News
Contribution to EMS Riverside Health Systems
Contribution to EMS by a HS Senior Andrew Wilkins, Northumberland Agency of the Year Mid-County Volunteer Rescue Squad
Award of Excellence David Barrick, Newport News
Call of the Year
James City County FD and VRS,  Life Evac

Be There
 

PEMS Monthly Meeting Schedule

Please note that the CTS location has been moved from RCC to Page Middle School

    8/19 Middle Peninsula PHC, PEMS, 7p
    9/20 HS EMT Instructors Mtg, PEMS, 1p-4p
 

PEMS 3rd Quarter Report FY08
PEMS 2nd Quarter Report FY08

PEMS 1st Quarter Report FY08
PEMS 4th Quarter Report FY07
PEMS 3rd Quarter Report FY07

PEMS 2nd Quarter Report FY07
PEMS EMS Strategic Plan 2007

2008-2009 CTS Schedule

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TO ACTIVATE THE CISM TEAM

CALL (757) 220-4356

For more information about the team, evest@vaems.org

E-mail Based Information Service

Subscribers may post information to the PEMS Information Service. Information may be received by the subscribers as individual emails, or as a daily digest of postings Click Here To Subscribe 

Need to order Complete Protocol Books? YES! (New Protocol Books $20)

Protocols ONLINE - Downloadable!


 

Did you know...?

From time to time we will focus on little known facts about PEMS' past. If you have an interesting picture or story, please let us know. evest@vaems.org
PEMS -1987 in Review


MISSION STATEMENT

The primary mission of the Peninsulas Emergency Medical Services Council, Inc. is to assist local emergency medical services components and to assess, identify, coordinate, plan and implement an efficient and effective regional emergency medical services delivery system in partnership with the Virginia Office of EMS and the Virginia EMS Advisory Board.

October 29, 1997

The Peninsulas EMS Council, Inc., is an equal opportunity proponent regarding all employment and committee involvement.