Tag: Medical Center EMS
Medical Center EMS Recognized for Reaccrediting as Center of Excellence
Medical Center EMS has successfully completed the intensive 20-step process to reaccredit its Communications Center as an Accredited Center of Excellence (ACE). The Communication Center is the 250th emergency dispatch center in the world to attain the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch® (IAED™) status as an ACE for its use of the Medical Priority Dispatch [...]
Medical Center EMS receives American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Plus Recognition Award
For the second year in a row, Medical Center EMS has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Plus Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks.
Every year, more than 250,000 people experience an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), the deadliest type of heart attack [...]
Medical Center EMS receives American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Plus Recognition Award
Bowling Green, Ky. (June 26, 2019) – Medical Center EMS has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Plus Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks.
Every year, more than 250,000 people experience an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) the deadliest type of heart attack caused [...]
Cabinet for Health and Family Services Changes Regulation In Effort to Help Greenview Hospital After Losing Recent Battle Over Ambulance Service
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services has changed a regulation following Greenview Hospital’s recent defeat in its attempt to establish an ambulance service in Warren County. The Cabinet’s changes improperly favor TriStar Greenview Hospital, an HCA-affiliated, for-profit, Tennessee-based corporation. The newly amended regulation brazenly seeks to remove the obstacles Greenview encountered when its [...]
Cabinet Denies TriStar Greenview’s Ambulance Service Application
Today, the independent hearing officer assigned to hear the case involving TriStar Greenview’s certificate of need (CON) application to initiate a second ambulance service in Warren County issued a Final Order denying the application. TriStar Greenview will therefore not be able to proceed with its proposed ambulance service. The Final Order (copy attached) cancels the [...]
Court Denies Motion by Greenview and Cabinet for Health and Family Services to Dismiss Medical Center EMS Lawsuit
Franklin Circuit Court has denied a motion filed by Greenview Hospital and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to dismiss a Medical Center EMS lawsuit challenging the Cabinet’s emergency regulation involving ambulance service.
The Cabinet issued the emergency regulation in late September which allows Certificate of Need (CON) applications for new ambulance services to be [...]
Med Center Health Files Lawsuit Against Cabinet for Health and Family Services As “Last Resort” Over Emergency Regulation
Med Center Health announced Monday that it has filed a lawsuit against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to stop an emergency regulation involving ambulance services. The Cabinet issued the regulation on September 25, clearing the way for an additional ambulance provider to address what the Cabinet wrongly calls a “public health crisis” in [...]
Med Center Health First Responders and Warren County Judge-Executive Snubbed By Bevin Administration Following Request to Discuss Emergency Regulation
Adam Meier, Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, has denied a request to meet with Med Center Health and Warren County Judge-Executive Mike Buchanon concerning a recently issued Emergency Regulation which addresses ambulance service in Warren County. Med Center Health and Judge Buchanon requested the meeting to make clear to the Bevin [...]
Medical Center EMS only Service in Kentucky with both CAAS and IAED Accreditations
Med Center Health’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) division has been recognized for outstanding service provided to the citizens of Warren County. Accreditations by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS) and the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch® (IAED™) are both gold standards within the industry. Medical Center EMS is the only ambulance service in [...]
Medical Center EMS receives 2018 American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Recognition Award
Medical Center EMS has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Award for implementing quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who experience severe heart attacks.Every year, more than 250,000 people experience an ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI),the deadliest type of heart attack caused by a blockage of blood flow to the heart that requires [...]
