Eastern Ambulance Service - Essay Example

EMS 2631 Spring Eastern Ambulance Service (EAS) Overview, Eastern quick response emergency management agency is established with the mission to ensure more than 4 million people living in the Eastern Province are prepared to respond to emergencies, recover from them and militate against their impacts. Operating under the provincial health servicers, this organization has a responsibility to react to several emergency services and provide medical care and other facilities to the citizen of the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. EAS is also the only private provider of Emergency medical services and inter-facility patient’s transfers that respond to the public. This private EMS company will operates 65 stations with a total of 370 ambulances and 44 supported vehicles. EAS will have dispatch centers in Khafji, Jubail, Qatif, Dammam, and Buqayq with complete ambulance dispatching and call taking services. EAS will also team up with Saudi Aramco Oil Co. to use their airemvac programme to handle critical emergency cases. Employment opportunities, EAS will combine their emergency and homeland security full-time equivalent positions in the various regions it maintains. EAS is an equal employer. It will frequently hires emergency medical responders (EMR), primary care paramedics (PCP), Critical care paramedic (CCP), Advanced care paramedics, infant transport team paramedics (IIT) and other management and casuals in accordance to the availability of the vacancy. Employment opportunities to interested persons; Ones eligibility is to submit an employment application with the EAS response emergency management agency depends on whether he/she has received certification in the interested position. EAS will spontaneously post advertisement for new employees as deemed necessary. Each application process will takes between 1 to 3 weeks and will be listed on the agency website under JOBS. Interested persons can only apply for their respective job positions upon receiving information on the advertised position. Eligibility for this jobs include: being 18 or more years of age, possessing a high school diploma, having a Certificate of Compliance for emergency management, possessing an EMT and/or Paramedic Certificate from certified medical institutions and having a valid Driver License. Individuals who pass all these minimum qualification requirements get their names placed under eligibility list. The list is passed over to the hiring department monthly and selected candidates called upon to complete the remaining screening process that include: Physical abilities test (medical certification is required prior to participation, Criminal background investigation, Polygraph examination, and an oral interview. Retirement and benefits; EAS response emergency management agency maintains a pension Fund policy for its employees that has the following provisions: Employees may vest after 4 years, NO AGE LIMITATIONS TO RETIRE, retire after 15 years service at 50 percent of pay (last 2 years averaged, 2% multiplier annually after 15 years to 80% of pay (MAXIMUM) at 25 years, a 3% cost of living adjustment yearly after retirement. Employees working with EAS will enjoy the following benefits: Comprehensive 25 years Retirement Plan, Paid Holidays, Vacation and Sick Leave, Group Health Benefits, Dental and Life Insurance and 24-hour Shift Differential. Additionally, the organization employees’ benefit from Deferred Compensation Program, Employee Assistance Program, College Tuition Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Military Leave and G.I. Bill Education Benefits. Staffing, EAS in approximate, will have an enrolment of at least 1,500 part time employees and 1,000 dispatchers and at least 2,000 paramedics. In the management sector, there will be 250 administrative and management EAS employees. Stations will consist of part time EMTs/paramedics, full time EMTs/paramedics, or even with reference to the stations locations and calls per day. Chain of command, EAS will be a uniformed organization with similar command chain as the fire departments in Saudi Arabia. Provincial offices and headquarters management and administration officers will not wear uniforms. There will be a distinguished chain of command. Each station will have a unit chief as the head who is also the overall supervisor for the crew at a given station. This chief is also responsible for daily station’s administrative duties. Every station falls under District Superintendent responsibility. Operation of all the stations in a given district falls under the Superintendent mandate. The number of stations and the size of the district are all factors of geographical situations and number of paramedics in duty. The executive director heads the larger part of EAS district whom the District Superintendent has to be accountable. The regional executive director reports to the EAS chief operating officer in EAS headquarters in Victoria. The president, chief operating officer reports to the final EAS Emergency health service board. Call volume, There are no records of the current call volume since EAS does not exist: however, EAS would be able to manage heavy traffic. For instance, EAS will be prepared to respond to an approximate of 150,000 emergency cases per year. Also there will be a recorded statistics to the calls related to emergency medical services during nights and day. Area demographics, the population of the Eastern Province is approximated to stand slightly above 4 million. Major groups that reside here include the Arabs and Non-Arab, Saudis and Non-Saudis. In fact, 1.2 million people, which makes up for 29 percent of the total population, are foreigners. According to the statistics released by information center, this region records an annual population growth rate of 2.9 percent. A greater proportion of the residents identify themselves with the Shia branch of Islam, whereas a reasonable minority, mostly comprising of Hanbali, identify with Sunni. Additional Martial, emergency is an unexpected event that calls for urgent and appropriate management to treat its results and thus prevent adverse effects. As an ambulance service providers operating in Eastern Province, emergency centers would be located at Damman, Al Khobar, and Dhahran, which form a tri-city in this part of the Saudi Arabia. For each of these regions, two local medical facilities would be identified and Eastern Ambulance Service (EAS) will enter into a partnership. In the event of health emergency, the nearest ambulance operators would arrive at the scene and would be responsible to rushing the patient to the nearest medical center for further checkups and care. Furthermore, EAS recognizes the need of ensuring that all patients in these emergency medical centers receive the best care. Therefore, a follow up medical team would pay regular visits to these to ascertain the quality of patient care. Eastern Ambulance Service (EAS) agency would further employ the services of mobile medics riding motorbikes. Understandably, heavy traffic is often a times a big impediment to smooth movement of ambulances. As an intervention to this challenge, this agency would have a specialized unit of medics who would move around in motorbikes to offer first aid services. Read More

 

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