About iEMSC

EMSC focuses on improving the quality of emergency care for children, and seeks to integrate children’s interests into the existing EMS system.

• Ensure and support EMS Agencies to submit National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) compliant version 3.x data to the State EMS Office, have a designated individual who coordinates pediatric emergency care, and a process that requires EMS Providers to physically demonstrate the correct use of pediatric-specific equipment.
• Develop hospital emergency department recognition program to utilize pediatric readiness benchmarking to improve facility readiness statewide.
• Support hospital emergency departments recognized through a statewide system that are able to stabilize and/or manage pediatric trauma.
• Ensure hospitals have written interfacility transfer guidelines and transfer agreements for pediatric or tertiary referral centers when medically needed.
• The degree to which Indiana has established permanence of EMSC program. Each year: EMSC Advisory Board has required members and meets 4 times a year, pediatric representation on EMS Board, state requires pediatric representation on EMS Board, on full time EMSC Manager dedicated solely to the EMSC program.
• Integrate EMSC priorities into state statues or regulations.