Emergency Medical Services Personnel Resources and Education

Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s offer opportunities for emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to gain continuing education credits, stay current on health care advances and build a closer collaboration with the region’s largest health care system.

Our unique, hands-on training opportunities were created for first responders to help you serve the emergency care needs of our community.

Training and Education

Norton Healthcare or Norton Children’s subject-matter experts are available to come to you, host a session or meet remotely to provide training and instruction. Talk to us about your needs, and we’ll work with you to build a curriculum that gives your team the information it needs.

We offer hands-on training as well as classroom-style instruction. Get started with our request form, and a member of the team will be in touch.

EMS Request for Education

Norton Healthcare or Norton Children’s subject-matter experts are available to participate in a training event or provide education to your agency on a requested topic. Complete a Request for Education Form, and someone from our team will be in touch after receiving your request.

EMS Request for Education Form

EMS Grand Rounds

Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s have designed these in-person training opportunities specifically for the EMS professional.

Recorded EMS Grand Rounds

EMS Observational Experience Program

This is a unique opportunity for existing EMS professionals to spend a day at one of our facilities observing our stroke or chest pain teams.

Norton Children’s Simulation for Pediatric Assessment, Resuscitation and Communication (SPARC) Program

Join our Norton Children’s SPARC team for a training designed to highlight special learnings on the management of a variety of pediatric medical conditions, including high-risk and/or high-acuity conditions.

Emergency Department Locations

Pre-hospital Collaboration

The Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s Pre-hospital Collaboration Team was established to foster a strong partnership between Norton Healthcare facilities and our EMS partners to improve patient and provider safety. The collaboration includes key Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s leadership from patient capacity operations, emergency department operations and transport and EMS departments.

EMS professionals are provided a platform to share concerns and ask questions, either at in-person quarterly meetings or via email at[email protected].

Pre-hospital collaboration meeting

Join us each quarter for a scheduled pre-hospital collaboration meeting.  Designed to improve patient and provider safety, the sessions allow the Norton Healthcare and Norton Children’s team to share and receive information from EMS and transport professionals.

The meeting is scheduled quarterly at Norton Brownsboro Hospital, first floor, Conference Rooms A and B, beginning at 9 a.m.

Upcoming Meetings

September 19, 2024

December 19, 2024

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