Prehospital
SSM Health Wisconsin and MEP Health are partnering to provide a comprehensive prehospital medicine program that will advance the medical care provided to our communities starting from a patient’s first contact with emergency personnel in the field. We are actively building our services to encompass the full spectrum of emergency medical services care including innovative and involved medical direction, extensive education offerings, and EMS system quality assurance design and implementation.
Medical Direction
Affiliation with SSM Health hospitals and MEP Health
1) Hospital based education, QA and patient care feedback programs
2) Interdisciplinary disaster and education training opportunities
3) Online medical direction from trained Emergency Medicine physicians
4) Building of relationships with our hospital-based emergency care providers
Offer the opportunity for active physician lead medical direction.
1) Fellowship trained and continued involvement with local, regional, state, and national EMS partners provides up to date medical direction and EMS physician expertise or oversight
2) Standardization of pre-hospital protocols to provide evidence-based and cost-effective care
3) Training
4) Ride along time with medical director to allow on scene education and medical direction as well as an opportunity to identify barriers to providing the highest quality of emergency care in the field
5) 911 medical director response capabilities at ALS level for large scale or MCI events
6) Participation in the development and implementation of effective quality assurance and process improvement programs for continuous system and patient care improvement
Goals
1) To provide education and training to all levels of providers involved in emergency medical services through simulation technology, hands on activities, and mobile educational opportunities in order to assist prehospital providers in providing the highest quality of emergency care.
2) To enhance and optimize our health system’s capabilities to care for our communities while maximizing our opportunities to advance the current integrated health network.
3) To collaborate with local, regional, state, and national EMS partners to assist in implementation of effective EMS systems.
4) To offer medical direction to interested agencies and assist in implementation of evidence-based emergency care protocols, quality assurance programs, and support effective performance improvement processes that are specialized to meet the unique needs of the community each EMS agency serves.
5) To support the missions of SSM Health Wisconsin and MEP Health