CTE Advisor Jonathan Schaeffer and Emergency Medical Technician Instructor Joshua Effle-Hoy organized an event to connect EMT students of North Valley Occupational Center (NVOC) with six local ambulance providers. This event gave students an opportunity to network with EMT companies to discuss future employment. The biggest surprise of the event, and a major source of pride of our program, came when students realized that each of the six organizations participating had at least one graduate of the NVOC EMT program working for them! These included Liberty Ambulance, Lifeline EMS, Firstmed Ambulance, PRN Ambulance, American Professional Ambulance and Ambulnz. 

Congratulations and thank you to former NVOC students Amy Ruiz, Steve Dodgen, Jonathan Lopez, Renee Biggle, Trystenn Esquivel and Paolo Garzona for helping to inspire the future EMT graduates.

FirstMed Ambulance announces its employees of the month by division. Criteria for selection include but is not limited to:

1. Attendance and Punctuality
2. Documentation
3. Out of Chute times
4. Initiative
5. Road Safety
6. Customer Service
7. Leadership

The winners are:

Division 1:

EMT Josue Moraga

Division 4:

EMT Felipe Tejero

At FirstMed Ambulance we believe that it benefits everyone involved if we partner with our customers’ facilities. Together, we can provide excellent patient care and do everything possible to expertly transport patients as well as reduce unnecessary readmissions. FirstMed Ambulance offers all its medical facility and hospital customers the opportunity to educate their personnel regarding BLS ambulance and Specialty Care Ambulance transports. As your transportation provider, FirstMed Ambulance will gladly offer a presentation covering the following list of topics:

• When to appropriately call or not call for an ambulance
• Patient safety guidelines that reduce the risk of patients or employees falling and/or other incurring other injuries.
• Managing patients’ medications during transport
• Coordinating the complete understanding discharge instructions
• The measures FirstMed Ambulance personnel apply to ensure they recognize patients’ “red flag” symptoms as well as instruction for nursing home personnel to do the same.
• SCT procedures and practices

FirstMed Ambulance also provides detailed reports about contract customers’ patients going in and out of medical facilities. As a result, our customers can comprehensively track and identify readmission trends and those factors impacting unnecessary re-admissions.

Take a look at some of the photos from a local health fair with FirstMed: