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As the temperature rises, so does the workload for medics with Austin-Travis County EMS. Staff say the first heat wave of the year usually leads to a spike in calls. Trump administration promises ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) is changing how it sends paramedics to calls. The department is rolling out a pilot program that helps decide which calls do not require an ...
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Austin-Travis County EMS celebrated a major milestone in its Whole Blood Program, administering its 500th unit of whole blood over the weekend. This accomplishment highlights the ...
So that's when I step in.” Angela Vorhies, Communications Commander with Austin Travis-County EMS, takes a call at the Combined Transportation, Emergency and Communications Center (CTECC ...
“The volunteers play a huge role.” Ector County Judge Dustin Fawcett talks about the importance of providing enhanced fire and EMS services to unincorporated areas of the county Wednesday ...
The answer is no,” Fuentes said. “A lot needs to change.” Austin-Travis County EMS’s comorbidities include chronic short-funding and understaffing. The agency estimated its unmet budgetary ...
Austin-Travis County EMS cadets graduated on Friday, with a total of nine new cadets joining EMS workers on the road. This helps to alleviate a staffing shortage ATCEMS has been facing. Podcasts ...
(TNS) - When Austin-Travis County EMS purchased an Immersive Interactive lab, its staff members wanted to learn what the lab could do from an organization that had experience with the technology.
Matt Briggs, second from right, a TSTC Emergency Medical Services instructor, shows Austin-Travis County EMS employees where the college’s ambulance simulator computer system is housed.
The official Austin-Travis County EMS X account appears to have been hacked ... have also been changed to reflect the advertiser’s logo. The account, whose bio now reads “Powering the ...
AUSTIN, Texas — Eighteen Austin-Travis County EMS cadets are now ready to serve our city. Fifteen field medics and three communications medics graduated on Friday afternoon. The entire ...
EMS workers are mainly just quitting, according to data provided by both departments. For Austin-Travis County EMS, this is attributed to multiple issues: burnout, a lack of work-life balance ...