Kitsap County EMS and TCC Board of Directors
Meeting Notes
April 20, 2017
5300 Newberry Hill Rd.
Silverdale, WA 98383
Attendees:Dr. Roger
Scott Weninger (Chair) / MPD
CKFR / Bruce Peterson / PFD
Kim Droppert (Past Chair) / Oly Ambulance / Charlie Aleshire (Vice Chair) / HMC
Steve Wright / SKFR / Pat McGanny / BFD
Debra Leenstra
Admin / KCEMS / Hank Teran / BIFD
The meeting opened at 9:35.
I. Approval of Minutes
II. The finance report was reviewed By Chief Smith and presented to the Council for approval.
III. Old Business
A. MPD Report
It was discussed and agreed upon that the new stroke triage protocol being discussed in the region is better suited in communities with more than one hospital. We will continue with current practices.
Dr. Roger will follow up on scheduling monthly meetings with the MO’s. He is looking at alternating between digital and live meetings each month beginning in May. Dr. Roger will be sending some dates to Chief Weninger.
SOPs – MO’s will review approaprite SOP’s at Dr Roger’s discresion during monthly MO meetings.
Kim will forward the current adopted Kitsap County State plan on QI to Dr. Roger and Deb to be forwarded to the MO’s. Dr. Roger would like to perform QI with ESO data. There will be a meeting on 4/21/17 to discuss the potential to set Bremerton up on ESO. Charlie would like to see QI to be Chief Complaint, injury or disease specific.
B. Ongoing CE Training ALS/BLS
Notes on OTEP from Joe were prepared and passed around. We will put this on the agenda for next time. Dr. Roger would like to talk to Target Solutions and EMS online regarding a County wide price reduction. The goal may become two live Base Stations per year if we can develop enhanced CE opportunities.
C. CBD
Chief Sorenson will continue to work on CBD. Chief Weninger has requested an intern from Western Washington University to assign coordination of this large project. The Chiefs will meet at SAB and begin a Kitsap 911 CBD conversation separate from the meeting with law enforcement. Also, we need specific incident reporting from Medics/EMTs regarding inappropriate CBD dispatching (wrong resource sent to incident).
D. Draft Policy Update
Medical Officers will review for next meeting.
E. Health Force Agreement
Chief Weninger would like to host trainings on Infectious disease. Place Health Force contract update on the Council agenda next month for feedback from Jeff at next meeting.
F. Rent
Deb is to follow up on leasehold excise tax. We discovered that EMS will be responble for $128.00 per month tax unless we receive a public agency to public agency waiver. A question was discussed: is Kitsap County EMS a public agency? (We never got the answer, but are applying for property tax exemption)
G. Possible County Ordinance
The draft letter was reviewed. It was agreed that membership in the EMS Council should be required for EMS transport entities that set up bases in Kitsap County. There should be an initiation fee and ongoing support from each agency with a base in Kitsap County.
III.
New Business
A. BACA Letter
Chief Weninger is to follow up with Doug Jones on BACA letter.
B. Physician Delegates
Chief McGanny will outline a draft of what topics or format interests our personnel and training officers for use by Physician Delegates during their visits. Our goal is to have Physician Delegate visits count as CE hours.
C. Meeting time change
Meeting will now be held from 0900-1100 to assist Dr. Roger with commute timing.
D. Debs replacement
Deb’s potential replacement is being screened. Deb will make herself available to help train as much as she can.
E. Laerdal Bill
The Laerdal bill was lost in transition and is to be paid this week.
The meeting was adjourned by mutual consent at 1110
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