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Senate committee hears plan to improve EMS response to people with Alzheimer’s; sponsor seeks nonlegislative pathway for training and protocol adoption
Summary
Senate testimony on SB 202 focused on improving emergency responses to people living with Alzheimer’s by adding EMS representation to an Alzheimer’s subcommittee and pursuing a medical operational protocol through the EMS medical control board, rather than imposing a state training mandate.
Senator Sue Prentiss introduced Senate Bill 202, which seeks to improve emergency medical services’ interactions with people living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The sponsor described a collaborative approach that would use existing state infrastructure instead of imposing a new statewide, legislatively mandated training requirement for EMS providers.
Prentiss said the original proposal had sought a minimum biannual, one-hour training for EMS professionals but that New Hampshire’s system already relies on the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and state medical-control and coordinating boards to set clinical protocols and continuing-education…
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