We are completing training for a new run form system called EMScharts.com. Most of our members have completed the training and we will go live with this system in January. This new system will replace over 60 years of paper, hand written run forms. It will also help us with statistics of types of calls and equipment used helping stream line our budget. It will also help with federal and state reporting that was previously done by a hand search. This system will also help us with billing and making sure that the insurance company is only billed and never the paitent.

After several years in the works, Easton EMS has completed the renovation of the old training room in to a three bedroom ( dormatory style ) sleeping area. Easton EMS volunteers for the first time in over 60 years will be able to sleep at EMS Headquarters, therefore drasticly reducing response times to emergency calls after midnight. Easton EMS was able to come up with a design that passed both Fire and Building code and also stay with in the budget alloted from the town. Easton EMS would like to thank Mediteranian Construction of Trumbull for seeing the project through. To see renovation pics: Click here

Easton EMS has started to send text messages of EMS calls to its members with the help of the South West Regional Emergency Communications Center. Inc. Volunteers now have the option to receive calls to their pagers or cell phone to further alert them of an emergency call. Previously members were alerted through a radio dispatch to portable radios and voice activated pagers. Off duty members could not always carry portable radios but do carry cell phones. This has already shown an increase in calls covered by the volunteer members!