**Evaluate this session**
Is your department providing high quality EMS? Some critics say fire-based EMS evolved as a catalyst to save firefighter jobs because of a decrease in fires. But, the fact is that fire-based EMS service can provide a high level of service with more oversight and methods of skill retention than some third service models. James McNeilly will show how you can use existing standards to develop a fire-based EMS program that is marketable and profitable and can be easily expanded into the Mobile Integrated Health Care arena.
Eric Kovach will present how Moody County Ambulance in South Dakota has become a leader by successfully operating a municipal service in a previously challenged rural system with a staff of 12 full and part-time employees. He will address key areas that needed improvement and help you reinvent your rural EMS system delivery model.