Supervisors and coordinators serve as staff to the regional EMS councils. They assist in determining regional needs and offer guidance to the regional planners as they complete their EMS grant applications. Staff members attend all regional EMS advisory council meetings and report at those meetings on EMS activities. Staff members also provide technical assistance to ALS programs while developing expansion proposals necessary to increase the level of care offered to the citizens. Ninety-five percent of the counties are providing some sort of advanced life support care.
Regional offices are part of the state emergency response team.
Field staff are equipped with alphanumeric pagers, two- way mobile radios and laptop computers. They can access the local area network should information on provider resources be needed. The task force will meet again at Emergency Medicine Today in Greensboro in October. Dr. Johnson noted that since the second Tuesday in November is Election Day, the next meeting of the Advisory Council will be held on Tuesday, November 15, 1994.