Description
The Department of Health, Division of Public Health, Alaska Office of EMS (AOEMS), is seeking a contractor to continue implementing the 2050 road map and vision to further enhance Alaska’s EMS system’s reliability, viability, and sustainability and to meet the needs of Alaskans. The contractor will suggest, create, support, and complete projects that follow the established EMS roadmap and move the Alaskan EMS system towards its goal of being a critical component of an integrated healthcare system. The projects should fall under one or more of the seven roadmap categories: patient care, community and stakeholder engagement, system governance, data-informed decision making, funding, workforce, and technology.
• Patient care: create, maintain, and fund culturally appropriate structures and processes to support clinicians and the clinical environment.
• Community and stakeholder engagement: provide culturally relevant, person-centered services within the community.
• System governance: define EMS in Alaska as an essential service with clarity about who is required to provide the service, what baseline service is required to be provided, and how the services will be funded.
• Data-informed decision making: create a clear and compelling “why” for the collection and use of data.
• Funding: determine the gap in funding between the true cost of providing EMS in Alaska as it operates today and as it would need to operate as envisioned in 2050.
• Workforce: gather the information necessary to understand the data and trends associated with recruiting and retaining the EMS workforce.
• Technology: assure equitable and reliable access to information/communication systems and infrastructure sufficient to accomplishing the Vision.