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Executive Summary - March 2008
CAMTS Board Meeting – March 14-16, 2008
The Board of Directors met for three days in Alexandria in conjunction with the AAMS mid-year conference. Ms Frazer and Ms Corbett provided an overview of new projects that CAMTS will be exploring such as scoring and risk analysis for programs demonstrating compliance with the accreditation standards. There were 22 accreditation deliberations and six progress reports reviewed by the full Board. There were also 54 progress reports reviewed by the Executive Committee. Mr. Dudley Smith, Treasurer discussed the 2009 fiscal year budget. Budget approved. Ms Frazer gave an update on the mid-year conference. Ms Corbett and Ms Frazer did a presentation on CAMTS vision for the future that included moving towards a scoring system to determine compliance with the accreditation standards. The presentation was well received. Dr. Richard Orr, CAMTS Vice-Chair, also convened an ad hoc Ethics Committee to discuss two major ethical questions – 1. As a voluntary organization, is CAMTS required to accept every application for accreditation? 2. In this age of transparency, should CAMTS move towards disclosing when a program has items for correction resulting from their site visit similar to the Quality Checks on hospitals found on the JCAHO website? The ad hoc Ethics Committee made up of representative of independent, and hospital-based services as well as international representation, agreed with pursuing plans to address both questions. The Board passed a revision to the Due Process policy as bolded in the attachment to be implemented immediately. The statement at the bottom of each accreditation letter was also changed to reflect actual practice as follows:
Accreditation decisions and actions are based upon: responses to the PIF, observations made at the time of the site visits, history of accreditation actions, incidents/accidents and other information received by the CAMTS office.
Ms Karen Rogers provided a report on the site survey schedule and site visits for the future. Ms Rogers also reported on our continued internal QM process and on results of QM performance evaluations from the September 2007.
Of the twenty-three accreditation deliberations, there were: 16 full accreditations, 5 probational accreditations, 1 provisional actions, 1 withdraw and 2 continued deferred actions. We congratulate the following services for achieving accreditation: New Accreditations
Gold Cross Ambulance – Rochester, MN G Reaccredited:
Aerocare – Sugar Grove, IL FW Air Life Denver - Denver, CO RW/FW/G Critical Care Transport – Birmingham, AL FW/G Flight For Life – Denver, CO RW/FW/G Huntsville MedFlight – Huntsville, AL RW Lifeguard Air Ambulance – Flagstaff, AZ RW/FW Lifeguard Air Emergency Services – Albuquerque, NM FW LifeNet of the Heartland, Olathe, KS RW Life Star – Erie, PA RW Life Star – Topeka, KS RW Mercy Flight Central – Canandaigua, NY RW/FW New Mexico Newborn Transport – Albuquerque, FW/G PHI New Mexico – Albuquerque, NM RW PHI California – Modesto, CA RW/FW San Juan Regional Air Care – Farmington, NM RW/FW SkyLife – Fresno, CA RW Star Care – Lincoln, NE RW Meeting adjourned at 3:00 PM on March 16, 2008. The next Board meeting will be held in Charleston, SC – July 10-12, 2008. |