Here's an interesting position paper on Rural EMS

[AZCEP]

Make your wheels squeakier than everyone else's.

For your next council meeting, have a discussion on funding for the EMS service placed on the agenda. Make sure that all of the members that can are in attendance. Nothing like showing up en masse to rattle the cages.

You know your situation better than anyone here, but taking the information that the feds have generated can be some powerful ammunition for your cause. This might lead to newspaper articles, or other local media coverage for your service. The first step is the hardest.

You have the support of the City, if it helps.

[Ace844]

To take what "AZCEP," suggested one step further, perhap you could contact soemone at the rural ems group and they can provide those of you who need it with advice, support, and resources, to help you be sucessful and they may even help bring more attention to your cause! Here is another suggestion as well.

Here is a link to an advocacy site which was founded by one of our more popular, and well respected colleagues:: http://capem.org/index.html[/font:f7afc29a23]

Out Here,

ACE844

[rat115]

Here we get paid a little over a hundred dollars a month if we take 144 hours of on call time. We also get paid $10 a call, $15 if we are doing standby at a special sporting event or a fire, and $60 or $75 (depending on if we're IV certified) for transfers to the metro areas. We have about 20 people listed as working for our service, but only about 15 signup regularly and a couple of those are known to miss calls. I agree that this is an issue. It would be great if it were possible to deal with it and make so that those who are responding regularly don't feel overworked and underapprecieted. Oh, sorry, that's an over all problem that needs to delt with in the US. :oops:

[Ace844]

Here we get paid a little over a hundred dollars a month if we take 144 hours of on call time. We also get paid $10 a call, $15 if we are doing standby at a special sporting event or a fire, and $60 or $75 (depending on if we're IV certified) for transfers to the metro areas. We have about 20 people listed as working for our service, but only about 15 signup regularly and a couple of those are known to miss calls. I agree that this is an issue. It would be great if it were possible to deal with it and make so that those who are responding regularly don't feel overworked and underapprecieted. Oh, sorry, that's an over all problem that needs to delt with in the US. :oops:

Rat you should read the links, studies and info available. ALso "rid's" post here is a must read as well: How To Lobby Effectively

Out Here,

ACE844