Emergency medical care (EMS) includes the planning and
coordination of care between scenes of an accident to the arrival to a
hospital. Every ambulance service and advanced life support first response
service shall establish or participate in a quality improvement program, which
shall be an ongoing system to monitor and evaluate the quality and
appropriateness of the medical care provided by the ambulance service or
advanced life support first response service and which shall pursue
opportunities to improve patient care and to resolve identified problems. The
quality improvement program may be conducted independently or in collaboration
with other services, with the appropriate regional council, with an EMS program
agency, with an hospital or with another suitable organization approved by the
department.
In
any city having a population of one million or more, whenever an individual
transported by ambulance from one facility to a second facility and the
destination is changed. It shall be the responsibility of the senior ambulance
dispatcher to inform the facility of origin by telephone of the ultimate
destination immediately upon arrival. (Department of Health, n.d.)
We
decided to use an ambulance as our public health due to the fact that it can
potentially save hundreds if not thousands of life in the course of that one
ambulance. The improvement and maintenance of a statewide system for conducting
transfers of critically ill or injured patients between general hospital and
other health care facilities are essential public health services. The
Department of Public Health is a regulator focused on health outcomes,
maintaining a balance between assuring quality and administrative burden on the
personnel, facilities and programs regulated (Connecticut, n.d.)
Kelvin Lozaro, Jackielyn Cabrera, Derrick Koppuzha
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