Emergency Medical Services
Mission
To assure the safety and health of Kern County residents by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual quality improvement in emergency medical service care.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) includes the system of services organized to provide rapid response to serious medical emergencies, including immediate medical care and patient transport to definitive care in an appropriate hospital setting. EMS includes:
- Public safety dispatch
- Fire services first response and treatment
- Private ground and air ambulance response, treatment and transport
- Law enforcement agencies
- Hospitals and specialty care centers
- Training institutions and programs for EMS personnel
- Managed care organizations
- Preventative health care
- Citizen and medical advisory groups
Public Comments
- Proposed AMA Policy (pdf)
- Public-Comment-AMAÂ Policy
- Proposed ParaFirstRespPolicy (pdf)
- Public-Comment-Paramedic First Responder Policy
- Proposed Paramedic Preceptor Policy (pdf)
- Paramedic Preceptor Policy-2Â -Â Updated second Public comment period
- Public-Comment-Paramedic-Preceptor-Policy
- Proposed EMTProtocols (pdf)
- Public-Comment-EMT Protocols
- Proposed ALS Protocol Changes (pdf)
- High Performance CPR-Public
- Proposed Triage Policy (pdf)
- Offload To Triage Comment Table
- Stroke System of Care – 2nd Public Comment Period
- December 15th, 2017 – January 19th, 2018
- Please submit comments to Chris Niswonger
- Proposed Stroke System of Care_20170919_b.track_
- Stroke Comment Table