{"id":4956,"date":"2013-10-14T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T12:49:11","slug":"ems-structured-for-quality-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/ems-structured-for-quality-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"EMS Structured for Quality: Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4958\" alt=\"specialevents4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/specialevents4.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"207\" \/>Essential Performance Results<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2008, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-aaa.org\/\">American Ambulance Association<\/a> issued a best practices white-paper entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washoecounty.us\/repository\/files\/1\/EMS%20Structured%20for%20Quality_0308.pdf\"><em>EMS Structured for Quality<\/em><\/a>. The paper was intended as a guide for &#8220;those who want to achieve the balance between quality and\u00a0cost factors, while earning the satisfaction of patients, taxpayers, elected officials, ambulance service\u00a0managers, employees, and other customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The white paper identified four Essential Performance Results for high performance emergency ambulance services:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Clinical Excellence.<\/li>\n<li>Response-time Reliability<\/li>\n<li>Economic Efficiency.<\/li>\n<li>Customer Satisfaction.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The next four volumes will describe how Aetna and ASM match up to and use these results to succeed and thrive.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essential Performance Results In 2008, the American Ambulance Association issued a best practices white-paper entitled EMS Structured for Quality. The paper was intended as a guide for &#8220;those who want to achieve the balance between quality and\u00a0cost factors, while earning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/ems-structured-for-quality-volume-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,54,56,46,9],"tags":[357,563,564],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5083,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions\/5083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}