EMS Outcomes
The Savvik Foundation and 5 partners sponsored the EMS industry's national consensus meetings on outcome indicators.
We cosponsored Six Sigma for EMS & Fire quality improvement training in Minnesota with the National EMS Management Association, HealthAnalytics, and North Carolina University.
We have collaborated with a number of state and national organizations encouraging CMS to include EMS providers in the Scope of Work for CMS Quality Improvement Organizations.
We participated in an Amicus Brief filing with the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
We collaborated with the Minnesota Rural Health Association, Minnesota Rural Partners, the American Heart Association and the Minnesota Ambulance Association in delivering comments to the federal HHS initiative on rural communities.
The Savvik Foundation has analyzed the impact of the 1997 Balanced Budget Act on EMS agencies. We issued a white paper:
"Protecting America’s Final Health Care Safety Net: Emergency Medical Services"
To learn more, click on the White Paper tab at the top of this page.