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Pinellas County EMS recognized for effective Quality Improvement

Pinellas County Emergency Medical Services highlighted in the February edition of JEMS magazine for their QI program. Exerpt from JEMS article: Has your quality improvement function actually made anything better? The honest answer for many EMS systems is, "No." For...

Sunstar Paramedics honored by American Heart Association

Sunstar Paramedics recognized for improving quality of care for severe heart attack patients LARGO, Fla. (Jan. 03, 2018) – Sunstar Paramedics recently received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® EMS Gold Plus Award for implementing life-saving...

Sunstar Paramedics wins national AAA award for recruitment campaign

Sunstar Paramedics wins national award for recruitment campaign. American Ambulance Association honors Sunstar Paramedics’ onboarding processes.  LARGO, Fla. (Nov. 15, 2017) – Sunstar Paramedics, the 911 ambulance provider for Pinellas County, received the 2017 AMBY...

Surveys Improve the Patient Experience

By Debbie Vass, Director of Quality Initiatives for Paramedics Plus EMS has long been known for monitoring performances such as response times, return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) rates, on-scene times and more. These are important performance measures that can...

Reinventing Recruitment – JEMS

Enhancing EMS Hiring Processes to Save Time and Money while Improving Patient Care JEMS Magazine | Tue, Aug 1, 2017 By Mark Postma, MHS, Jeremy Tinter, BA, NRP, CCP-C EMS moves at an incredible pace, and the ability to keep up with a rapidly changing clinical...

Sunstar Paramedics honored by Florida Department of Health

Sunstar Paramedics’ clinical services department and employee Stephen Glatstein received statewide awards LARGO, Fla. (July 13, 2017) –Sunstar Paramedics was the recipient of two Excellence in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Awards from the Florida Department of...

Two Sunstar Paramedics employees receive Prestigious industry awards

American Ambulance Association honors Kasey Ras and Jonathan Balzer with Stars of Life award LARGO, Fla. (June 30, 2017) – Two Sunstar Paramedics employees, Kasey Ras and Jonathan Balzer, have received the American Ambulance Association’s Stars of Life award, which...

Largo paramedic changing lives with memorial bike rides

Paramedic Doug Gladstone rides to honor fallen EMS workers Largo, Fla. (June 16, 2017) When Doug Gladstone participated in his first National EMS Memorial Bike Ride in 2011, he was a casual rider who had never entered an organized event. But despite his inexperience,...