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As a member of the Paramedic Association of Canada (PAC), you are eligible for preferred group rates on home and auto insurance from our program insurance broker, Marsh’s Private Client Services (Marsh). These rates are not available to the general public and are being offered to you as a benefit of your membership. Most people are skeptical when presented with opportunities for free insurance quotes, but we have permitted Marsh to make this offer to our members on the basis that it represents a reasonable opportunity to save. Over 40%** of those choosing to contact Marsh for a quote followed through and bought their insurance through them. And now, when you call for a quote between Aug. 26 and Oct. 25, you also have the chance to win a free Sonos One Smart Speaker! Please call Marsh toll-free at 1 877 476 6727 or submit your expiry dates online at www.marsh.ca/quote and a licensed insurance broker will contact you prior to your next renewal.
*Members of PAC requesting a quote or submitting expiry date(s) for future quotes for the PAC group home and auto insurance program from August 26 to October 25, 2019 are eligible for the draw to win a Sonos One Smart Speaker (Generation 2) with a value of $497.00 CAD plus applicable taxes. The contest prize is provided by Marsh Canada Limited and the program’s underwriters, Novex Insurance Company and Economical Insurance Company. No purchase necessary. Limit one entry per person. Quote must be for a new home and/or auto policy. Odds of winning depend on the number of entries. Entrants must be age of majority, residents of Canada (excluding Quebec), and members of PAC. Full contest details are available at www.marsh.ca/paccontest.
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The PACE 2019 Paramedic Market is sold out. Over 70 exhibitors displaying their products and services in one place. Do not miss your opportunity to walk the largest EMS exhibition in Canada. To see the list of exhibitors click HERE.
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The Paramedic Association of Canada, and it’s partners Paramedicine Across Canada Expo and Manitoba EMS Exemplary Service awards committee are thrilled to announce that the Paramedic Awards Dinner, sponsored by Fertilizer Canada is SOLD OUT.
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PACE2019 will be offering a variety of learning, networking, and educational opportunities including pre-conference sessions, a Paramedic Research Symposium, dedicated speaker tracks for “Clinical”, “Educators”, “Leadership”, “Specialty”, and an opportunity to visit and participate in a traditional Indigenous Sweat Lodge Ceremony.
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Mississauga.com
With school back in session and life settling back into a fall routine, a sombre mood has become palpable, as Canadians mourn the loss of our short summer and prepare for our cold Canadian fall.
We start thinking about packing up the back deck, furnaces that need tuning, motorcycles that will be winterized, and summer gear that will slowly start migrating to the back of our drawers while the sweaters and pants are re-entering our wardrobes.
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Saskatoon StarPhoenix
Overdose calls have nearly doubled in Saskatoon since 2013, but critics say health authorities aren’t collecting data needed to turn the tide.
Saskatoon paramedics responded to 1,052 overdose and alcohol poisoning calls in 2018 compared to 532 in 2013, according to statistics provided by Medavie Health Services West. As of Sept. 3, 730 were recorded this year.
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CBC News
A final call for paramedic dispatcher Laura Grant echoed across the Halton EMS radio waves Friday.
"This is a last call," stated Halton Region Paramedic Services deputy chief Peter McMurrough, after calling for her three times by her number — ACO 86377.
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The Review Newspaper
United Counties of Prescott and Russell council was recently updated on the investigation by the Ministry of Health into the Emergency Services Department’s decision to stop responding to most ambulance calls outside of its territory.
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CBC News
Proposed changes to ambulance rules in Ontario could see paramedics take patients to facilities other than a hospital emergency department, or treat them and release them on scene.
People calling 911 for medical assistance could also be directed to other facilities in the community.
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The Kingston Whig-Standard
The head of the union representing Frontenac Paramedics says she is concerned a dispute about the emergency service’s 2019 budget could impact service levels.
The city of Kingston and the county of Frontenac have disagreed about the 2019 budget, approved by both municipalities in February and included a 7.74 per cent increase in the city’s portion of land ambulance costs, an annual increase of about $544,000.
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Irish Journal of Paramedicine
In this wellbeing series we present practical advice for prehospital care providers, responders, and other shift workers. These articles are produced by experts in their field. Many of these topics were presented at the Irish College of Paramedics Wellbeing Symposium in University College Cork in May 2019
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Irish Journal of Paramedicine
Undertreatment of pain has been reported in the paramedic literature, and reasons for these disparities are not well understood.
As the qualification level of the paramedic may affect analgesia administration, the primary aim of this study was to determine the impact of paramedic qualification on the provision of any analgesia for patients reporting pain.
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Nursing Notes
The U.K.’s first ‘dementia-friendly’ ambulance was launched by East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) earlier this week.
EMAS work alongside UnityDEM, the University of Northampton’s Dementia Centre, to update four emergency vehicles, making people with dementia feel less frightened or confused when traveling in them.
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CBC News
A new app aims to help give Thunder Bay's paramedics the support they need as they deal with the more traumatic aspects of the job.
The agency has recently turned to technology to help its paramedics deal with the stresses they encounter on the job; the app for their mobile phones focuses on providing peer support.
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The Canora Courier
Mathew Tourand has had a busy career as an advanced care paramedic with Canora Ambulance Care since moving to Canora in 2012, but he has started a home-based project which is likely to keep him just as busy on many of his off days.
In the basement of his house in Canora, Tourand recently opened New Pulse Studios. It’s a studio where he plans to record the music of performers from around the area.
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CTV News
For paramedics in Thunder Bay, an average day includes responding to at least one opioid overdose.
The northwestern Ontario city and its surrounding area has the highest per-capita accidental opioid overdose death rate in the province, at 22.7 per 100,000 people, according to the latest available data from Public Health Ontario.
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McMaster University Family Medicine
A model of care proven to reduce EMS calls — which frees up ambulances for quicker response times and may help reduce the burden on emergency departments — is expanding to sites across Canada.
In April, Dr. Gina Agarwal and the McMaster Community Paramedicine Research Team were awarded Health Care Policy Contribution Program (HCPCP) funding by Health Canada to expand the innovative Community Paramedicine at Clinic (CP@clinic) program with paramedic services across Canada.
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Elliot Lake Today
The ongoing cuts to health care funding and social services in this province has gone beyond unacceptable. The government is looking at restructuring the Algoma District Administration Board, which would mean the district communities’ would have less staff members and ultimately it would likely affect service levels.
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Global News
Mayors and reeves across southern Alberta are calling on the provincial government to help resuscitate the HALO Air Ambulance program.
HALO was first established in 2007 and operates primarily out of Medicine Hat, Alta.
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