JEMS

JUNE 26, 2025

The… EMS Training News News Feed Georgia Headlines Baltimore to Downgrade Some ALS Units as Staffing Shortages Persist The Baltimore City Fire Department is preparing to downgrade four Advanced Life Support (ALS) units to Basic Life Support (BLS) starting next month.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 7, 2025

This suburban, combined ALS and BLS EMS system responds to greater than 120,000 combined requests for service a year. Individual agencies are dispatched via a common communications center using commercially available Emergency Medical Dispatch software. Of the groups with positive findings, Sp02 increased on average from 89.6%

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JEMS

JUNE 27, 2025

The… EMS Training News News Feed Georgia Headlines Baltimore to Downgrade Some ALS Units as Staffing Shortages Persist The Baltimore City Fire Department is preparing to downgrade four Advanced Life Support (ALS) units to Basic Life Support (BLS) starting next month.

Mobile Integrated Health

JEMS

JULY 3, 2025

Roy Danks provides a humorous yet evidence-based takedown of the long spine board. 1 min read EMS Recruitment & Retention News News Feed Headlines Maryland Documentary on the Life and Legacy of James O. 3 min read Admin/Leadership News EMS EMT Headlines James O.

EMS

JEMS

JUNE 11, 2025

His agency has three levels of gear when appropriate, for instance there is an ALS, BLS, and AEMT drug bag in each ambulance, but there is, of course, a great deal of cross over and this is simply not necessary for most of the equipment. In the EMD (emergency medical dispatch) world, they often count as BLS.” It’s pretty simple, right?

AEMT

JEMS

JUNE 27, 2025

The ALS units, staffed by paramedics, are being downgraded as part of strategy to address chronic staffing shortages and ballooning overtime costs. Currently, the city has about 40 paramedic vacancies.

ALS

International Journal of Paramedicine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

EMS responses (n = 4,375,568) were analyzed comparing patient acuity and CMS Service level, Advanced Life Support (ALS) vs Basic Life Support (BLS), to assess for associations in acuity and CMS Service level using logistic regression. Data were obtained from the National Emergency Services Information System (NEMSIS) database for 2019.

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