MEMSA Board Elects New Officers
Please remember to forward this important information on to other EMS professionals in Missouri 
On August 6th the MEMSA board of directors held its annual election of officers for the next one-year term. The board held the election near the Tan-Tar-A Resort as a precursor to the Combined Clinical Conference. Newly elected officers include Nathan Williams (right) as president and Ken Koch as vice-president. Andrew Umland was elected treasurer for a second term. Ruby Mehrer was e...
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Combined Clinical Conference and the MEMSA Award Ceremony
Three hundred, twenty five people attended the 21st annual Combined Clinical Conference on Emergency Care, held August 8 – 10 at the Tan-Tar-A Resort at the Lake of the Ozarks. Organizations sponsoring the event were the Missouri Chapter of American College of Emergency Physicians, the Missouri Emergency Nurses Association and the Missouri Emergency Medical Services Association (MEMSA). These agencies come together once a year at the combined clinical conference for a two and ... Read More >> |
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MEMSA’s Role in Missouri EMS – Serving EMT’s and Paramedics Statewide
Kent Shutt is a MEMSA member working in Odessa and Kansas City. Shutt got his EMT license in 1989 and his paramedic license in 1991. Back then Shutt says MEMSA’s role in Missouri EMS didn’t particularly mean much to him – he was new and besides passing his practical tests, which MEMSA had some involvement in, his attention was primarily on starting his new career. Eighteen years later, Kent says his outlook on MEMSA has changed quite a bit, partly because he...
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MEMSA Registration Drive – Building The Network is a Big Deal!
As you read this story or click around on the website you’ll notice our statistics information to the upper right. As this edition of CODE 3 is published we have 223 registered members. We had more than 12,000 members receiving our hardcopy edition of CODE 3. The question is, how can you help us to reach 1000 registered members by the time the next edition is published in October? ...
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USERRA: What You Do Not Know Can Cost You Big Time
By Frank Foster n 1994 Congress replaced the Veterans Reemployment Act with the Uniform Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). Congress directed the Department of Labor to promulgate implementing regulations. The Department of Labor got right on the task and twelve years later, on January 18, 2006 the implementing regulations became effective! The regulations are available from the DOL website located at: www.dol.gov/vets. ...
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Cell Phone 911 Legislation
By Jason White Missouri has the proud status of being the only state in the union which does not have some sort of funding mechanism to help pay for (and thus establish) a system to find 911 calls from a cell phone. That’s right – over two thirds of Missouri’s population can use their cell phone to make a 911 call and we cannot find them. ...
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Congrats UEMS On A Job Well Done!
Craig Armstrong A little over a year ago the Unit of EMS and the Department of Health & Senior Services started working with Missouri training entities to shift all EMT and paramedic written testing over to a computer based system. The National Registry of EMT’s instituted this change but in reality the UEMS was the agency which had to take the bull by the horns. ...
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Missouri End-of-Life Coalition’s Third Annual Policy Summit
You and your staff are invited to attend this timely public policy event. The Missouri End-of-Life Coalition’s Third Annual Policy Summit will be September 14th at Jefferson City’s Capital Plaza Hotel. The Third Annual Policy Summit will feature Stephen Kiernan, author of “Last Rights.” Policy Summit topics will include implementation of Out-of-Hospital Do Not Resuscitate legislation passed by the Missouri General Assembly this year (House Bill 182),...
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