DIANE FENDI: You’re supposed to be jumpstarting you’re performance measures and we know that everyone of you are very much co

Annual EMSC Grantee Meeting

State Partnership Grant Representatives

Jumpstarting Your Performance Measure Activities

June 20 – 22, 2006

DIANE FENDI: You’re supposed to be jumpstarting you’re performance measures and we know that everyone of you are very much concerned that you’re doing this right. And that you’re able to move your programs forward. My name is Diane Fendi; I’m the Trauma Acute Care Specialist with EMSC National Resource Center and obviously I’m not having as much fun those people out in the hall. At the table--

SCOTT: They’re faking it.

DIANE FENDI: They’re faking it? I’m not going there with you, Scott. Okay. Can we get the door shut so that where in not fighting them? And if they want to come in, fine in the ending. At the table, are our other two speakers today. We’ve got Jennifer next to the wall who’s with the Lewin group and actually has been working very hard with the EMSC program on this evaluation measures and helping us get them straight so that we can--as grantees demonstrate to the federal programs that we actually are doing a very good job and commented to Jennifer earlier, she’s on one side, I’m on the other side: it’s a torn in between roses. The rest of you know Mike Lee. Mike’s come with some very nice data collection tools and he will be helping with this session as well.

The other speakers for this session are you all and we would like to take five minutes just, stand up, introduce yourself, and where you’re from and the reason we’re doing this is we have so many new grantees and new coordinators we thought it would be nice if folks just could recognize a name and focus in on a face because I’ve had some folks come up to me and say, “Do you know who so and so is?” And some of us do know who so and so is and some of us don’t. So, if we could start right here with this very handsome gentleman if you just stand up and introduce yourself and your state, and then will keep going but let’s go real quick.

RANDY: I’m Randy, (inaudible) director from Colorado.

JEAN: Jean Marie Regan, also from Colorado make that Jean Marie (inaudible)

JOE: Joe Rice, same partnership principal investigator Washington DC.

CYNTHIA: Cynthia, (inaudible) EMS coordinator for the project, good morning everyone.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Good morning.

MICHELLE: Michelle (inaudible) here in DC.

BOBBY: Bobby, EMSC program manager state of Nevada.

JOHN: John Kramer, state of (inaudible)

KIM: Kim (inaudible) EMSC project coordinator (inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (inaudible)

DIANE FENDI: Speak up loud because we got some soft voices.

UKNOWN SPEAKER: (inaudible) EMSC.

UKNOWN SPEAKER: I’m (inaudible) New York.

PHIL: Phil (inaudible) Ohio

KELLY: Kelly Risen, a new EMSC coordinator for North Dakota.

UNKNOWN FEMALE SPEAKER: (inaudible)

CHRIS: Chris (inaudible), EMSC program manager for Alabama.

ANNE: Anne (inaudible)

TIM: Tim (inaudible) for Tennessee.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible), Texas

JENNIFER: Jennifer (inaudible), South Carolina

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible), EMSC coordinator for Washington.

GLORIA HALE: Gloria Hale (inaudible)

LARRY: Larry (Inaudible) Colorado

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) from Alaska

Loris: Aloha, I’m Loris (inaudible) from guess where?

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) from Oregon

SCOTT: Scott (Inaudible) EMSC coordinator from Washington.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) from Arizona.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) Arizona.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) Georgia.

JENNIFER: Jennifer (Inaudible) EMSC director from Massachusetts

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

STEPHANIE: Stephanie (Inaudible) from Nebraska.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) from Seattle.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) Iowa.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) from Atlanta.

DEBBIE: Debbie (Inaudible) from Louisiana.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible 6:47) program director South Carolina.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I’m Chanley EMSC director, Michigan.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) North Carolina

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) coordinator from Oklahoma.

PAUL HARMON: Paul Harmon, from Oklahoma.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) from Pennsylvania

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) EMSC coordinator from Missouri

LINDA WARREN: Linda Warren, EMSC coordinator, New Mexico

HOWARD: Howard (Inaudible) EMC coordinator from (inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) New Jersey.

NANCY: Good morning, I’m Nancy (Inaudible) EMSC New Jersey.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I’m (Inaudible) from Texas.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) in Minnesota.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) in Honolulu.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

DIANE FENDI: We have anybody else in the back? Oh, over here.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) Maryland.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) director from Maryland.

DIANA FENDI: We missed some folks over here on the side.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) EMSC director, Vermont

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible) EMSC, Vermont.

DIANA FENDI: Anyone else that we happened to missed? We’ve got chairs coming in at the back. We’ve got some chairs up here on the front and I promise if you will be sitting on the front, we will not call on you. So, I mean that should be enough to get you up here to the front if at all possible.

UNKNOWN SPEAKER: (Inaudible)

DIANA FENDI: Okay, obviously with so many of you all here it’s become very apparent that, you all are looking for all of the magic answers, how to jump start your performance measures, so I’m not going to tell you that we have all of the magic answers. Actually, most of us who work with the grantees would tell you that over the years we’ve learned that, you end up having many of the answers yourselves and our jobs are to help share those answers with everyone else.

So, with that said, we’re going to open up with Jennifer. She’s going to give us an overview of the measures, do some answering of specific questions that we have had amongst ourselves and that you all have pointed out to us. Mike is going to interject some of the data collection tools that NEDARC has been working on. And then we’re going to come back to discussion amongst you. Many of you submitted some very specific questions related to the performance measures and we’re going to start off with those and then as other questions come up hopefully, we’ll have some time to address those. So, with that being said, Jennifer would you like to get started?