EMS Today 2019

Charles Blankenship
Manager, System EMS Transport
Mission Health


25+ yrs. EMS experience and 15 yrs. Emergency Management. Have been involved in Adult education for 18 yrs. Have 12 yrs. Search and Rescue experience, almost 10 yrs. of that as a K9 handler. 6 yrs. Military experience US Army. Leading 5 departments Regional Transport, Behavioral Health Transport, Medcom Communications Center, Fleet Management and Community CaraMedics for Mission Health that operates 6 Hospitals, including a Level II Trauma center. Serving 18 Counties in the western region of NC doing over 30,000 transports/yr. Community CaraMedic program provides Mobile Integrated Healthcare in support of our Population Health program and ACO Mission Health Partners. Medcom handles 92,000 calls/yr. and facilitates our system one call STEMI line.

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