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Advocates tell committee EMS licensure compact would expand workforce and speed cross‑state deployments
Summary
Supporters including ambulance providers and a national compact official urged the Joint Committee to let Massachusetts join the interstate EMS licensure compact (H4119), saying it would remove multistate red tape, maintain existing standards and improve response times during surges and disasters.
Supporters of H4119 told the Joint Committee on Public Health that joining the interstate Emergency Medical Services (EMS) licensure compact would give Massachusetts a fast, low‑cost tool to expand its ambulance workforce and speed clinically credentialed deployments across state lines. Witnesses including Action Ambulance leadership and the executive director of the interstate EMS commission said the compact would not reduce Massachusetts’ training or oversight standards but would allow qualified EMS clinicians from compact states to…
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