Arizona uses a Certificate of Necessity (CON) system to regulate ground ambulance service in Arizona- and to make sure that every place in the State has adequate emergency medical services, including the frontier parts of AZ. The CON actually describes the geographic service area, level of service (advanced life support or basic life support), hours of operation, response [...]
Did you know that we issue nearly 20,000 licenses every year- on everything from hospitals to childcare centers, midwives, trauma centers and sanitarians? We’re required to have meet certain time-frames for each license or approval the Department issues- and we issue a lot of licenses. If we don’t process the license within the timeframe, we’re [...]
We’ve made a lot of progress toward doing something about one of the biggest killers in the state and U.S.- cardiac arrest. We’ve published peer-reviewed journal articles that demonstrate the superiority of the new hands-only CPR technique, implemented the new approach throughout the EMS community, made inroads with getting the public aware of the new [...]
