EMS Recognition Awards 2016

August 12, 2016 / No Comments

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Alameda County EMS is a high performance EMS system located in the Bay Area of Northern California.There are over 140,000 9-1-1 call each year in the system.

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• System Leadership Changes - January 8, 2016

The Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Agency is hosting the County’s annual EMS Recognition Event. Our event is scheduled for Wednesday, December 7, 2016 from 11:30 am to 2:30 pm at the “Casa Real” venue in Pleasanton. The goal of the event is to recognize our EMS champions and outstanding colleagues who have demonstrated exemplary skill as a prehospital provider, leveraged significant improvements in the EMS system and / or conducted themselves as leadership role models in our EMS community. Continue Reading…

Senior Injury Prevention Program – Educational Forum 2016

April 13, 2016 / No Comments

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MAY 25, 2016 – Save the date!

Welcome to the 16th Annual California Senior Injury Prevention Educational Forum/This past year has been an exciting one for our SIPP Coalition. In addi­tion to receiving a second year of funding from the California Department of Public Health to support this Educational Forum; once again we were provided with funding for another year of two evidence based fall prevention programs – Stepping On and Tai Chi Movement for Better Balance. In addition, this year, we received funding from the Partners in Care Foundation to offer the evidence based fall prevention program Matter of Balance and to implement a modified STEADI (Stopping Elderly Accidents, Deaths & Injuries) as a fall risk assess­ ment tool utilizing first responders. Continue Reading…

System Leadership Changes

January 8, 2016 / No Comments

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• System Leadership Changes - January 8, 2016

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System Redesign – EMS Update #2

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• System Leadership Changes - January 8, 2016

Hello everyone.

This latest update comes to you after a significant event in the process of gaining stability in our EMS system so that we can continue to advance the EMS system redesign and RFP process we began several months ago.

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Ambulance System Redesign Project – Citygate UPDATE #2

October 12, 2015 / No Comments

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Principal, Public Safety (Law Enforcement; Fire & Emergency Services) at Citygate Associates, LLC

Mr. Gary leads Citygate’s public safety practice areas of Law Enforcement and Fire & Emergency Services. He has recently directed the Rancho Cucamonga police services analysis, the Hesperia partners JPA feasibility study, a police and dispatch consolidation study for Brea and partners, and has been working on public safety studies of all types for over a decade. Chief Gary is the retired Fire Chief of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department in Alameda County, California. Over the last fourteen years, he has performed over 200 organizational, staffing, and deployment studies and has worked with a variety of communities on staffing, master plan, and deployment studies. He has worked with The Omega Group, Citygate’s public safety data specialist, for over a decade and understands how to draw staffing and deployment conclusions from data.

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• Ambulance System Redesign Project – Citygate UPDATE #2 - October 12, 2015
• Ambulance System Redesign Project – Citygate UPDATE #1 - August 27, 2015

It has been a busy summer and early Fall on the project! We appreciate all of the interest shown in the stakeholder listening meetings. We have met with representatives of city leadership, receiving hospitals, public safety providers, Paramedics Plus management and their employee representatives. We have received and are modeling field deployment incident and current system revenue data sets.

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Documentary Film – In The Red

September 10, 2015 / No Comments

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THE GRAND LAKE THEATER

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2015 at 7:00 PM

Introduction by Superior Court Judge Trina Thompson

Music courtesy of Raphael Saadiq

Free popcorn that night

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Ambulance System Redesign Project – Citygate UPDATE #1

August 27, 2015 / No Comments

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Principal, Public Safety (Law Enforcement; Fire & Emergency Services) at Citygate Associates, LLC

Mr. Gary leads Citygate’s public safety practice areas of Law Enforcement and Fire & Emergency Services. He has recently directed the Rancho Cucamonga police services analysis, the Hesperia partners JPA feasibility study, a police and dispatch consolidation study for Brea and partners, and has been working on public safety studies of all types for over a decade. Chief Gary is the retired Fire Chief of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department in Alameda County, California. Over the last fourteen years, he has performed over 200 organizational, staffing, and deployment studies and has worked with a variety of communities on staffing, master plan, and deployment studies. He has worked with The Omega Group, Citygate’s public safety data specialist, for over a decade and understands how to draw staffing and deployment conclusions from data.

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• Ambulance System Redesign Project – Citygate UPDATE #2 - October 12, 2015
• Ambulance System Redesign Project – Citygate UPDATE #1 - August 27, 2015

In June 2015, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors awarded the ambulance system re-bid and research project to Citygate Associates, LLC of Folsom, California. The project will result in a Request for Proposal (RFP) to re-bid the ambulance Exclusive Operating Area (EOA) contract currently held by Paramedics Plus due to changing health care economics. The intent is to award a new contract at the end of the current agreement in November 2016. The project has three macro phases:

1. Investigate the current system situation and identify opportunities for patient care improvements and cost-effective changes
2. Develop the RFP and bidder evaluation tools
3. Assist the County with reviewing bidder submittals and finalizing contract language with a preferred vendor

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EMS Recognition Awards Banquet

August 20, 2015 / No Comments

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Alameda County EMS is a high performance EMS system located in the Bay Area of Northern California.There are over 140,000 9-1-1 call each year in the system.

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• System Leadership Changes - January 8, 2016

EMS Banquet Nominations

Alameda County Emergency Medical Services Agency is hosting its annual EMS banquet luncheon to honor emergency medical services personnel for their hard work and dedication to the communities they serve. This could be your partner, a nurse or doctor from a hospital, or a private citizen that has taken on a special interest relating to EMS.  This years’ celebration luncheon will be Wednesday, October 14th. See the EMS website for more information— www.alcoems.org

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System Redesign – EMS Update #1

July 8, 2015 / No Comments

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• EMS Recognition Awards 2016 - August 12, 2016
• Senior Injury Prevention Program – Educational Forum 2016 - April 13, 2016
• System Leadership Changes - January 8, 2016

Based on some recent developments, it’s the right time to provide you with some follow-up on our EMS system redesign process.  There’s a lot of uncertainty floating around our EMS system these days. We feel it too.  We’re dealing with some complex and difficult issues that don’t lend themselves to easy fixes.  We’re continuing to work on these issues on two tracks. Continue Reading…