Federal Prisoner Transfer Center

I had quite an interesting call at the local Federal Transfer Center. One of the prisoners decided to do himself in by swallowing razor blades (3), taken an overdose of his psych medications and slash his forearms to ribbons. Oh, and he sliced his carotid arteries to boot. This prisoner wanted to take others with him, as he was being less then helpful with treatment, and full of hepatitis-C. Nice....

There's A New Sherriff in Town at ETMC & Paramedics Plus!

East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System has named Ron Schwartz as the new vice president/chief operating officer for ETMC EMS.

Follow this link for the full story: http://www.c-bstatesman.com/news/2011-08-04/News/ETMC_names_new_EMS_vice_president.html

Pinellas EMS reduces costs, but taxpayers will pay more

Paramedics Plus has its hands full with issues popping up in two of its service areas. First in Oklahoma City and now in Pinellas County Florida. Pnellas is looking for cost saving measures and possibly raising the EMS tax to its citizens. Follow the link below to take you to the story
http://www.tampabay.com/news/localgovernment/pinellas-ems-reduces-costs-but-taxpayers-will-pay-more/1181265

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Window of Opportunity

The link below will take you to a document that was submitted in August of 2010 by the city manager. As everyone is aware, there is a Window of Opportunity beginning October 1st 2011 for making changes to the Ambulance delivery system in Oklahoma City This window allows for the city to review other options for providing ambulance service and determine the viability of the TRUST. The link below shows what the OCFD contemplated back in 2006, when the city considered going with an FD/Civilian workforce. Interesting reading!
 
http://www.okc.gov/agendapub/cache/2/pxkt1yeliqwonfv1dpwnb045/112309108042011051534558.PDF

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Wow!

If ands and buts were candy and nuts, everyday would be Christmas! That was interesting!

Communication is everything!

Communication is everything!

It's not what is said...
It's not what is intended...
It's how it is perceived by the other party!

Perception is one of the oldest fields in psychology.

Should probably study-up on that before it bites you in the ass!

Me!

NATS ASS

January 5th: N.A.T.S. EMS entered into an agreement with A.S.S. Ambulance Services Inc. N.A.T.S. agreed to acquire the remaining assets of A.S.S, Inc, even though there was nothing left to buy.

A spokesperson for NATS said that "It would be better to own 100% of the A.S.S., than have 0.1% risk of another company bidding against them". The new company will be called NATS-ASS Ambulance, Inc, which will be a subsidiary of NATS, Inc.

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