Improving rural emergency medical services (EMS) through transportation system enhancements.

Samra, Haifa; Qin, Xiao; He, Zhaoxiang; South Dakota State University

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Improving rural emergency medical services (EMS) through transportation system enhancements.

2014-05-01
By Samra, Haifa ; Qin, Xiao ; He, Zhaoxiang

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South Dakota State University
Corporate Contributors:

United States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology Administration
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Emergency Medical Services Emergency Response Time Needs Assessment Rural Areas Traffic Safety Trip Length
Publication/ Report Number:

MPC 14-267
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

South Dakota
Corporate Publisher:

Mountain Plains Consortium
Abstract:

Improved emergency medical services (EMS) will impact traffic safety and public health in rural

communities. Better planned, designed, and operated roadway networks that connect hospitals with

communities in need will enhance EMS performance. To provide safe, timely and quality services, it is

necessary to obtain a realistic estimate of the medical demand and the capacity of current transportation

infrastructure pertaining to the services. The gaps between service providers, patients, and transportation

network connecting the two need to be identified and filled to support better EMS. The goal of this

project was to identify issues with respect to the delivery of quality EMS to rural residents in South

Dakota (SD) and to conduct a needs assessment from the rural transportation system perspective. Study

objectives were:

1. Identify the service needs from the rural communities

2. Evaluate the rural transportation system components in support of swift and safe EMS

3. Identify the existing issues with the SD EMS providers or first responders related to roads

and traffic controls

Study objectives were achieved through a combination of literature review, spatial and temporal analysis

of SD EMS data, and EMS personnel surveys and focus groups. In addition to survey results, this report

summarizes the SD EMS data from the geographic (e.g., counties in SD) and temporal (e.g., time of day,

day of week, and month of year) perspectives and concentrates on several time- and distance-dependent

variables such as response time, en-route time, on-scene time, and transporting time as well as the

distance to and from the incident scene.
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