The Lord Fairfax EMS Council's Performance Improvement and Trauma Performance Improvement committees have released their data requirements for FY11. ALL licensed agencies are required by the Operational Medical Director to submit the data each quarter. Agencies are also to send a list of providers running calls within their agency at the same time for their OMD's use. All agencies should be receiving a CD by mail with the requested data the week of August 30, 2010. For more information, click here .

Two new EMT-Basic courses have been announced! One will be held at the Woodstock Volunteer Rescue Squad beginning Aug 23, 2010 and the other will be held at the Frederick County Public Safety building as part of their next EMS Academy. For more information, click here.

The Council will also hold a Continuing Education EMT Refresher class at the Council office in August. This class is free of charge and will provide 24 hours of required CE if all dates are taken. Pre-registration is REQUIRED!

 EMT Refresher Advisory Greenwood Aug 10         EMT Refresher Schedule Aug 10

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  On Wed, June 9th, the Lord Fairfax EMS Council presented its annual EMS awards for outstanding contribution to emergency medical services within our region this past year. More

At a recent meeting of the Medical Direction committee, the Operational Medical Directors voted to require all ALS providers to complete a class for the Regional Pre-Hospital Standard Patient Treatment Guidelines and to have a new Authorization to Practice signed along with completing a preceptor internship. For more information, click here .