Current Medical Program Directors Island County - Dr. Krystal Baciak
Island County EMS
San Juan County - Dr. Josh Corsa
San Juan EMS
Skagit County - Dr. Matthew Russell
Skagit EMS and Skagit Valley Hospital
Snohomish County - Dr. Ryan Keay
Sno. County EMS
Whatcom County - Dr. Marvin Wayne
Whatcom Co. EMS & Peace Health St. Joseph's
The Roles of MPDs in Local and Regional Systems of Care
As Medical Program Directors you play a very important role in the EMS and Trauma Care System in Washington. You provide highly valued guidance and leadership to agencies and individual providers in your counties. Your medical protocols set high standards for prehospital care. You work collaboratively as a body of physicians to develop new approaches to prehospital care that keep Washington State in the forefront of the delivery of emergency medical services.
Another very important MPD role, identified in WAC, is the involvement in regional system planning and particularly the development of Regional EMS and Trauma Care System Plans. As MPDs you know what is needed and what will work within your county prehospital systems. You have the opportunity to work with other MPDs within a regional system to ensure that the regional plan objectives and strategies reflect prehospital work that is vital across a regional system and are aligned with the Washington State EMS and Trauma System Strategic Plan, which you helped create. Reginal EMS and Trauma Care Councils want and need your expert input and leadership and are eager to find constructive ways to involve you in helping to participate in planning your regional systems of care.
RAC and WAC references to MPD opportunities for involvement in regional system planning follow: WAC-246-976-920
WAC-246-976-960
(iii) Describe how the roles and responsibilities of the MPD are coordinated with those of the Regional EMS/TC Council and the regional plan.
WAC-246-976-970
Regional PCPs are part of Regional EMS and Trauma Care System Strategic Plans. (RCW 18.73.030 Definitions (12): Regional PCPs are written operating guidelines adopted by regional EMS/TC councils in consultation with local EMS/TC Councils, emergency communication centers, and the MPD in accordance with state-wide minimum standard).
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