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Temperature checks are required for their administration, staff, visitors and EMS personnel. Anyone entering the nursing home or adult care facility is subject to COVID 19 screening as outlined in the guidance document linked below.

Please share with local and regional EMS as this guidance affects them when dropping off or picking up a patient at one of these facilities.

Compliance with this directive is not optional. It is required.

These facilities contain our most at risk population and we all, including but not limited to EMS, need to do our part to prevent spread inside these facilities as much as possible.

https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/system/files/documents/2020/03/acfguidance.pdf

Daniel J. Clayton, BS, EMT-P

Chief, Operations Section

Bureau of Emergency Medical Services

New York State Department of Health

875 Central Avenue

Albany, NY 12206

The DOH is directing program agencies to forward this request to all ambulance services. This request is to determine availability of ambulance resources for three days to assist with interfacility transport operations beginning on 04/07/2020.

Reply to the survey is requested by noon on 04/06/2020.

https://apps.health.ny.gov/pubpal/builder/EMSMobilizationAgency

Thanks,

Steven P. Dziura Jr.

Deputy Director

New York State Department of Health

Bureau of Emergency Medical Services & Trauma Systems

875 Central Avenue
Albany, New York 12206

All EMS providers must wear masks upon entry to any Kaleida facility.   Masks should be available at each EMS entrance. If no masks are available, please ask staff for a mask for each EMS crewmember and patient(s).

For pre-arrival notification of a STABLE patient, please do not call the medical direction line.  The general ED number should be utilized.  If medical direction is needed, please utilize the med line.

For any questions or for more information please contact me or visit http://www.kaleidahealth.org/ems

Thanks,

Joshua J. Lynch, DO, FACEP

Corporate Emergency Services Liasion

Kaleida Health

Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

University at Buffalo| Jacobs School of Medicine

Subject: CALL ON CONGRESS TO SUPPORT EMS PROVIDERS IN CORONA VIRUS LEGISLATION

NYS EMS Leaders,

The U.S. Congress is in the process of drafting additional legislation to help the nation cope with the Corona Virus pandemic.  None of the bills passed thus far have provided direct funding relief or protection for our nation’s EMTs and Paramedics.

NAEMT is activating a grassroots campaign to call upon Congress to provide direct assistance to EMS.

It only takes a few minutes for you to send letters to New York’s Senators and members of Congress to ask them to include direct funding for EMS in the next Corona Virus funding bill.  The campaign can be accessed through the NAEMT website at: http://www.naemt.org/advocacy/online-legislative-service#/.

The link above will allow you to send e-mails to our elected representatives.  It will take less than 1 minute.

Thank you for all that you are doing to keep your community safe in this difficult time.

Be Safe,

Steve Kroll, NAEMT Advocacy Coordinator for New York State (steven.kroll@delmarems.org)

Travis Howe, NAEMT Assistant Advocacy Coordinator for New York State (thowe@mountainlakesems.org)

The all EMS agency leadership meeting has been moved to 15:00 on Friday, April 3rd.  When the meeting info is released, we will distribute on this list.

Sincerely,

UBMD EMS Division

Beginning today (March 31) at Noon – the key pad at the Buffalo General Medical Center’s ambulance bay will no longer be active.

All arriving crews should utilize the intercom located directly next to the key pad and security will open the door.

Notice from BGMC will be provided once the key pad is active again.

The Western Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee (WREMAC) has extended this year’s reporting date for annual skills.  Normally, skills are reported by June 30 each year.  This year’s reporting date has been extended to September 30, 2020.

Until such time when it is safe to do so, agencies should not be conducting WREMAC annual skills sessions.

On behalf of the Western Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee (WREMAC), transporting EMS services are reminded to bring the patient’s prescribed metered-dose inhaler(s) (MDI) with the patient to the hospital.