New Three Year Grant Project Announced at NCOEMS

The EMS Performance Improvement Resource Center

I am pleased to announce an exciting new program for North Carolina Office of EMS, The EMS Performance Improvement Resource Center.

This three year grant project, funded by the Duke Endowment Foundation, will focus on developing EMS Performance Improvement Toolkits. These Toolkits will be a new and innovative method of assisting local and state EMS systems with the evaluation and improvement of EMS service delivery, personnel performance and clinical care delivery.

Using the new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Uniform PreHospital Dataset and the established North Carolina PreHospital Medical Information System (PreMIS), six EMS Performance Toolkits will be created and implemented over a three year period. These toolkits will allow every EMS system in North Carolina to evaluate and improve their EMS services and patient care delivery, regardless of their knowledge or expertise in performance improvement.

We will be partnering with UNC-CH Department of Emergency Medicine over the next three years to implement the EMS Performance Improvement Resource Center. OEMS Chief Drexdal Pratt is the Project Investigator for this grant. Cindy Raisor, RN, MSN, is the new OEMS Performance Improvement Specialist assisting us with this endeavor.

NC OEMS staff as well as EMS providers across the state will be called upon to have input to this project. This new project, is the first for the NC OEMS as well as nationally.

More information regarding this project will be coming at the 2004 Emergency Medicine Today in Greensboro!

signed:
Chief Drexdal Pratt

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