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SAVE THE DATE!: Seven Mountains EMS Councils’ 2026 Annual Spring Conference: March 6-8, 2026.

Plans are in the works for the Seven Mountains EMS Council, Inc. Annual Spring EMS Conference.
  • When: Friday, March 6th through Sunday, March 8th, 2026.
  • Where: The Pine Barn Inn in Danville, PA.

Please check back often or visit sevenmountainsconference.com for speaker lineups, registration details, and more!

 

 


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Governor’s Disaster Declaration regarding Opioid Crisis

On January 10, 2018, the Governor signed a Disaster declaration for the Commonwealth in regard to the Heroin and Opioid crisis.

As an element of this, the Acting Secretary of Health/Physician General Dr Levine has made the determination to modify the Naloxone Standing Order to allow for EMS agencies to leave behind Naloxone with the At-Risk Person or with family members, friends, or other persons who are in a position to assist the At-Risk Person.

Below are the subsequently released guidance documents:

Standing Order – Professional Rescuer

EMSIB – 2018-02

EMSIB – 2018-03

Naloxone – FAQ (1/19/18)

New Password Requirements for EMS Registry

New Password Requirements Coming

This will be implemented for the new EMS Registry System.  Any logon you have for the commonwealth SharePoint will change to this standard in January as indicated below.

 –Minimum length to increase from 8 to 12 characters 

Beginning in January, as existing passwords expire or are reset or changed, new passwords that are created will be required to meet the new 12-character minimum. You may continue to use your existing password in the meantime.

Remember, your password must also use three of the following: upper-case letters, lower-case letters, numbers and symbols.

One way to create longer passwords that are hard to guess, but easy to remember, is by using a pass phrase.

For example:

  1. Start with a sentence with meaning to you, such as:
    I went on vacation to Jamaica in 2015 and the beach was beautiful.
  1. Use the first letter of each word:
    “iwovtji2015atbwb”
  1. Add mix of upper-case letters, numbers and symbols for complexity

TRAIN-PA Course Offerings

A group of new training programs are being added to TrainPA starting December 22, 2017.  It is expected that all of the programs will be available by the first of 2018.  New program offerings include:

  1. Airway Care
  2. Airway management Essentials
  3. Respiratory Emergencies: CPAP
  4. Sudden Cardiac Death
  5. 12-Lead Electrocardiogram (ECG)
  6. Medical Assessment
  7. Trauma Assessment
  8. Abdominal Emergencies
  9. Diabetic Emergencies
  10. Geriatric Behavioral Emergencies
  11. Heart Failure
  12. STEMI Care
  13. Street Drugs
  14. Stroke
  15. Domestic Violence
  16. Lifting and Moving
  17. Social Media & EMS
  18. Back Injury Prevention for EMS
  19. Bloodborne Pathogens
  20. Critical Decision Making
  21. Emergency Driving
  22. Emergency Vehicle Operations
  23. Medication Errors & Equipment Failure
  24. Patient Refusal
  25. Triage
  26. Workplace Stress
  27. Tourniquets & Hemorrhage Control
  28. Understanding Shock
  29. Risk Management: Refusals & Abandonment
  30. Reporting Writing