Ambulance Advisory Committee

AMBULANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES December 9th, 2010 9:00 AM Meeting called to order at 9:00 a.m. by Kerran Vigroux ACC Members Present: Kerran Vigroux, Director of Public Health and Community Services Lt. John Fisher, Divisional Supervisor, Nashua Police Department Christopher Stawasz, Executive Director of Rockingham Regional Ambulance David Fredette, City Treasurer Joe Freire, City of Nashua Fire Department Dan Cronin, City of Nashua Fire Department Public Present: Scott Cote, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Mark Hastings, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center The Committee Members were given the copies of the following: 1. Ambulance Advisory Agenda for December 9th meeting; 2. Rockingham Regional Ambulance Monthly Report for October/November was emailed to all members prior to the meeting and copies were distributed at the meeting; 3. Meeting Minutes for October 2010 meeting (also posted on the City of Nashua website) 4. Updates of Rockingham documents for the Ambulance Binders 5. Calendar of Meetings for 2011 – Copy also sent to Susan Lovering at City Hall for posting on the City Website Motion made by Kerran Vigroux to vote on accepting the Minutes from the October 14th meeting. Chris Stawasz: Motion to accept minutes John Fisher: Seconded the motion All in favor: Aye All opposed: None 1. Chris Stawasz – Discussion of October – November Rockingham Ambulance reports o No spikes like last year at this time (influenza-like- others) o Staff has been vaccinated to the 80% level, and we hope to reach as high a percentage as possible. o State of NH has new EMS Rules and Regulations which have now been in effect about a month.  Some are effective January 1st, 2011, including one that requires additional equipment on EKG machines. o Working on AED donations; we’re more than half way there.  Hope that after January 1st and after our meeting with the Rotary Club, we’ll be able to hit all schools.  If not, it will be in next year’s Rotary budget to include all schools. o Super Sitter Course for babysitting will be coming up January. o Bill before Congress now that if they don’t approve the physician fee schedule on add back to ambulance provider, we stand to lose 2-3%.  Bill is expected to pass  Went through the House, but not through the Senate yet. o CMS (Medicare Intermediary) requires us to report fractional mileage and no longer allows mileage to be rounded off. o Kerran mentioned the recent AED Training by Rich of Rockingham Ambulance, and mentioned that we had great feedback. She thanked Chris for this training.  Our AED is located in the Clinic. o Chris gave Kerran an updated personnel list and updated Patient Satisfaction Summary.   We will not circulate the employee list because it contains personal information. 2. Kerran will accept questions if there are any - o Do you check driver’s licenses? Chris: Yes; every six months o Activity Summary shows number of stand-bys? Chris: We don’t use that term anymore; they are included in the A Category. In November we responded to an incident in the morning at the Sewerage Treatment facility. 3. The meeting was opened to the Public Comments o Dave Fredette – what is the status of the RFP  Kerran: Joe is working on this reviewing other RFPs, other criteria and putting options together. It will be back to Purchasing in a couple of weeks.  Dave – does the Committee see this? Kerran – no; they only review the current contract that’s in place. o Mark Hastings of SNHMC  Is Rockingham for sale?  Chris – It is not my company to sell; so not that I’m aware of. o Scott Cote of SNHMC  There are increased numbers of issues with violent patients in the Emergency Room and the hospital is trying to resolve this issue. Working to get a Health Care Worker Protection Act, as in Massachusetts. The patients will get a minimum sentence and/or a fine. This could act as a more of a deterrent rather than putting people in prison. o EMS Worker was hurt in Mont Vernon. o Rockingham Ambulance worker was assaulted last week on the seacoast. o John will talk with Captain Nichols and will work as facilitator.  Will work with Gary to set this up and to keep our people safe. End of Public Session Next Meeting will be February 10th at 9:00 a.m. Dave Fredette moved to adjourn meeting John Fischer seconded the motion. All in favor: Aye Meeting ended at 10:25 a.m. Respectfully Submitted, Barbara Scacco Administrative Assistant II City of Nashua