What is the Riverside County Emergency Medical Services Agency (REMSA)?
REMSA is the designated government entity in Riverside County that oversees and regulates the delivery of prehospital emergency medical services. Functions of the EMS agency include but are not limited to:
- Planning, implementing, evaluating, and continually improving local EMS systems including basic prehospital and specialty care services like trauma, stroke, STEMI, and pediatric care
- Collaborating with other health officials to ensure a unified, coordinated approach in the delivery of health care
- Certifying, accrediting, and authorizing EMS field personnel
- Authorizing and approving local EMS training programs
- Developing/approving medical treatment protocols and policies for local EMS service providers (EMTs, paramedics, dispatchers)
- Designating trauma, stroke, and STEMI centers
- Coordinating activities and communications between various agencies that provide EMS system services so that care is seamless (e.g., emergency medical dispatch, first responders, ground and air ambulance, receiving hospitals, trauma centers)
- Coordinating community education programs regarding injury prevention, CPR, public access defibrillation, etc.
- Collecting, analyzing, and reporting on EMS data and providing that data to the California EMS Authority electronically for statewide system evaluation
- Establishing exclusive operating areas for emergency ambulance service as appropriate, and then contracting for those services
- Providing oversight for EMS quality improvement and quality assurance activities
The authority to perform these functions is written into state law (California Health and Safety Code 1797.200) and Riverside County ordinance (Ordinance 756.1).
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