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Caroline County honored with VACO award for EMS drug-kit transition
Summary
The county’s Department of Fire & Rescue received a 2025 Virginia Association of Counties Achievement Award for an October 2024 program that changed how EMS medications are dispensed and tracked after federal DEA rule changes; board read a resolution and recognized staff and partners.
Caroline County’s Department of Fire and Rescue received a 2025 Virginia Association of Counties (VACO) Achievement Award for a program that restructured how emergency medical services handle and dispense prescription medications, county officials said during the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday.
The Board read and adopted a resolution recognizing the department’s EMS drug kit transition program, which county documents say was implemented Oct. 23, 2024, to meet new requirements announced by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration in early 2023. The resolution credited FireEMS Chief Jason Loftus and staff for building a county-managed “hub-and-spoke” dispensing system that…
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