NYS Dept of Health, EMS Bureau

Responsible for the general oversight of the EMS system statewide, through:

providing both financial and staff support to the State EMS Council and Regional EMS Councils coordinates and develops contracts with the EMS Program Agencies to assist in the development of local EMS systems approves all EMS certification courses and assists in development of curricula approves county EMS plans supported by state aid conduct examinations and issue individual EMS certifications administers the state aid program that provides free training leading to certification maintains a pre-hospital care data information system for use in evaluating the quality of the system administers the trauma program, including the State Trauma Advisory Committee designation of trauma centers and a Trauma Registry utilized for QI purposes approve and manage a variety of legislatively and federally funded EMS grants responsible for issuing agency certifications, conducting periodic inspections of ambulance services and investigations of complaints regarding the conduct of certified providers or services

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