COVID-19 - IEMSA

RURAL HEALTH COVID-19 UPDATES

Events

IHC Annual Forum: Innovation Born from Disruption July 13-15, 2021
Improving Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Survey Scores in the Rural Setting July 29, 2021

Scholarship Opportunity

Certified Rural Health Clinic Professional (CRHCP) Course

2021

2020

NAEMT NATIONAL SURVEY RESULTS
Click here for the NAEMT National Survey results regarding the impact of COVID19 on EMS Agencies.

From IEMSA Medical Director
(4.15.2020) These protocols and guidance documents were composed for several EMS services who share common EMS medical directors across northeast Iowa, working in collaboration (Dr. L. Fagre, Dr. W. Fangman, Dr. C. Hill, and Dr. C. Joylani), and these are approved for use by their services only. They are posted here for reference, should other EMS services find them useful. These are not official State documents/procedures nor are they necessarily endorsed by the Iowa EMS Association.

Isolation guidance for Iowans (PDF)

Coronavirus Pandemic EMS (PowerPoint)

EMS Protocol Addendum (PDF)

EMS COVID-19 Non-Transport Policy (PDF)

Important COVID-19 Links to Monitor
For critical information relating to the Covid-19 virus, IDPH recommends that you regularly monitor information provided by the following organizations:

If a patient tests positive for COVID-19 through a national reference laboratory, the ordering healthcare provider must notify IDPH immediately prior to patient notification by calling the Iowa Department of Public Health’s Center for Acute Disease Epidemiology (CADE) at 800-362-2736, see COVID-19 Testing Framework for Iowa.

Iowans can call 211 for information and to have questions answered about COVID-19.

2023 EMS MEMORIAL CEREMONY CANCELLED
WE WILL HONOR OUR EMS HEROES IN 2024. The 2024 EMS Memorial Ceremony will be held May 18, 2024. The ceremony will be held at the location of the EMS Memorial at WDM station #19. 2024 EMS Memorial Applications for the 2024 EMS Memorial Ceremony should be submitted by mail. Please print, complete and mail this PDF. The deadline for the 2024 EMS Memorial is April 15, 2024. Get details here.

2023 HONORING OUR OWN CEREMONY
Join us for the IEMSA Honoring Our Own Ceremony at CCCU/Veterans Memorial in Des Moines, in conjunction with the 33nd Annual IEMSA Annual Conference and Trade Show at 7:45 AM on Saturday, November 11, 2023 in the Level 3 Ballroom. If you know of any EMS, Fire, Dispatch, EMS Instructor, or Friend of EMS who made significant contributions to our EMS profession that are no longer with us and should be honored in this ceremony, please contact us by email here.