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EMS Advisory Committee

Role/Purpose of Committee:

The Committee (SNEMSAC) is to provide valuable insights and feedback into the effectiveness of the Superior North Emergency Medical Services. The main purpose of the committee is to ensure the essential elements of service delivery are identified and enhanced, to meet the needs of all residents and transients in the District of Thunder Bay.

The fundamental principles for the delivery of land ambulance services within a comprehensive health services systems are:

Accessibility:

	Equal accessibility to a system by all persons in the province.
	Central Ambulance Communications Centres (CACC's) ensure rapid and boundary-less accessibility.
	Resources are available to ensure reasonable access to ambulance services.

Integration:

	Each ambulance service, and ambulance, is an integrated part of the health care and emergency services system of the province.
	Inter-facility transfers for medically-necessary services remain an essential part of the system.
	CACC's ensure the response of the closest available, appropriate ambulance vehicle to meet the needs of a patient.

Seamlessness:

	The closest ambulance will respond, at any time, in any jurisdiction, regardless of the political, administrative, or other boundaries.
	CACC's ensure the appropriate ambulance resources are dispatched to major incidents (disasters), while continuing to ensure local ambulance needs are met.
	Ambulance services must always be readily available regardless of location or timing.

Accountability:

	Ambulance service providers must be medically, operationally, and financially accountable for the provision of the highest possible quality ambulance services and patient care.
	Service delivery will be monitored by municipalities, as well as through Base Hospital Program, CACC, and the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. This will ensure appropriate ambulance service is available in the District of Thunder Bay.
	Ambulance service providers will be jointly accountable through performance agreements with the District Designated Delivery Agent, and to the Ministry through standards and legislation.

Responsiveness:

The Ministry, municipalities, delivery agents and providers must ensure ambulance services are responsive to the evolving health care, demographic, socio-economic and medical needs in the District of Thunder Bay.

Each of these criteria is present in the current ambulance delivery system.

The Advisory Committee will have no operational role and will not in any sense be responsible for the management of the program or services but will have the opportunity to recommend internal standards for system management.

It will also have no role in formulating or approving budgets.

The Advisory Committee will have opportunities to establish subcommittees or task forces to research and comment on specific issues which will arise.

Membership:

The committee is made up of stakeholders who represent the interests of the broader Emergency Medical Services and who contribute to the fundamental principles for the delivery of land ambulance services within a comprehensive health services system as outlined above.

The following people will be sitting on the Superior North EMS Advisory Committee. The first meeting was December 13, 2001.

Superior North EMS...............................	Jocelyn Bourgoin
CACC....................................................	Pete Bergsma
Base Hospital...........................................	Elaine Graham
CAW......................................................	vacant
Eastern Municipal Representative.............	Eric Rutherford
Hospital Operators..................................	Lori Marshall
Thunder Bay District Municipal League....................................	Lucy Kloosterhuis Mayor, Municipality of Oliver Paipoonge
Quality Assurance & Training..................	Norm Gale
First Nations...........................................	Carmen Blais
Ontario Paramedic Association................	Kathy Aiken
MOH - Emergency Health Services..........	Don Stokes

• Superior North EMS Advisory Committee - Contacts
• Superior North EMS Advisory Committee - Terms of Reference