Minutes of the EMD Task Force Meeting

November 15, 2002

CSP Headquarters    700 Kipling St., Denver Colorado

Old Business:

• All in attendance reviewed letter to the SEMTAC.  Questions from the SEMTAC about the following:

-         What are the groups Long and Short Term goals?

-         Action Plan and time line for completion?

-         What will the monies from the Grant be used for?

-         What are your plans for funding in the future, other than grants?

• Mission Statement was reviewed and the following was decided upon:

“The Colorado EMD Committee is representative of multiple agencies from around Colorado. We are committed to establishing guidelines in order to maintain and improve emergency medical dispatching to the citizens of Colorado.

This will be accomplished through recommending the establishment of standards of care, training, continuing education, protocols and policies for the implementation and maintenance of EMD programs in the State of Colorado.”

·        Pro’s and Con’s of the Committee establishing a  501 (c) 3, non-profit

Organization was discussed. It was agreed all in attendance that the Committee should continue with the process and Jackie with 911 Solutions will be in charge of the Task Force to get the process started. Until the non-profit status is obtained, 911 Solutions will be the organization in which the State EMS Grant will be applied through.   The “Grants Task Force” was formed as a standing committee.

·        The most recent set of By-laws was reviewed and revised. The by-laws will be

Posted on the State Health Departments website for viewing with voting to occur at the January 2003 meeting. The following is the website that can be accessed:

http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/em/Communications/PCPommunications.asp     

            Jackie from Adams County 911 and Brian with Action Care Ambulance will be in     contact with their agencies to see if this can be added to their departments                  website as a link.

·        Several in attendance expressed their concern about not getting any or all of the information being posted on the Yahoo e-group.  Because of this, the committee will make a better effort to assure the information is available to any interested people, to include posting the information on the State website under EMD. (If you know of a person or agency not receiving the information, please take it upon yourself to forward postings and information along to them.)

·        Because only a few “cost analysis” informational packets were returned, a Task Force was formed to try to get more participation from around the state. The following people volunteered to concentrate on specific regions so they can be completed by the January 1^, 2003 deadline.

Western slope: Connie Johnson w/Cortez

South East:            Jackie Reynolds w/Adams County 911

North East:             Sheryl Lopez w/Sterling

            If your agency hasn’t turned in its cost analysis yet, please get with these people.

New Business:

·        Election of Officers for 2003.  The following people were nominated, elections will take place at the January 2003 meeting:

Treasurer:            Jackie Reynolds w/ Adams County 911

Secretary:            Sheryl Lopez w/Sterling

      Vice Chair:      Kimberly Archuleta w/ Boulder

      Chair:         Sharon Clever w/Route County

·        Jackie with Adams County 911 distributed the letter from their agencies Medical Advisor. Several agencies were interested in getting something similar but weren’t sure what it should contain.

·        All agreed that a representative of the EMD Committee should attend all SEMTAC meetings in order to have continued recognition and proper representation. Millie Miller with Longmont has volunteered to be the groups representative at these meetings. She will report back information and be the liaison between the EMD Committee and the SEMTAC.

Announcements:

Jefferson County will be hosting an Instructor/Provider course in March. Dates and times to be announced.

SEMTAC Communications Sub-Committee meeting – January 8, 2003 1pm-3pm

Department of Health building    4300 Cherry Creek Drive South, Denver.

EMD Meeting January 3^rd at 1300 hours at Boulder Dispatch.

1805 33^rd St.  Boulder, CO.

(From Denver metro area, take SH36 (Boulder Turnpike) westbound to Foothills exit. Proceed up the Foothills ramp going northbound to Arapahoe. Westbound on Arapahoe to 33^rd. North on 33^rd to the middle of the block, Boulder Public Safety bldg is on the west side of the street. Enter through main entrance and advise front desk to notify County dispatch you are there and someone will come for you.

From Jefferson/Golden area; northbound on SH93 to Boulder. Continue north to Arapahoe. East on Arapahoe to 33^rd, north on 33^rd and then follow above instructions.)