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New EMS administrator outlines priorities as EMS moves back to DPH
Summary
Dr. John Brown and new EMS administrator James Duran briefed the commission on returning EMS to DPH, staffing and system data gaps, and near-term priorities including medical direction, centralized data, quality assurance and regionalized training.
Dr. John Brown, medical director of the San Francisco EMS Agency, and James Duran, the agency’s new administrator, presented an overview of the EMS system and the planned transition of EMS from the Department of Emergency Management back to the Department of Public Health.
Brown described EMS’s role in a layered emergency response system—dispatch, first…
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