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EMS groups back transparency but warn statewide dashboard must reflect local benchmarks
Summary
The Connecticut Ambulance Association supported a response-time transparency bill but urged the committee to design any public dashboard with local EMS plans, call-type distinctions and municipal benchmarks to avoid misleading comparisons. Witnesses said much of the data already exists electronically but that plans and response standards vary across municipalities.
Greg Allard, president of the Connecticut Ambulance Association, told the committee that the data needed for response-time transparency largely exist and meet NEMSIS standards, but he warned that a statewide dashboard risks misleading comparisons if it does not reflect local EMS planning and contractual benchmarks.
Allard said municipalities are supposed to…
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