{"id":482,"date":"2009-07-17T12:19:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/bems\/?page_id=482"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:11:11","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/?page_id=482","title":{"rendered":"Mission Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><strong>VISION<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\nKansas Emergency Medical Services (EMS) shall be an out-of-hospital, acute healthcare system providing an established standard of care through the utilization of promising practices and oversight.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>BOARD PURPOSE<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\nTo protect and promote the welfare of the citizens of Kansas through the efficient and effective regulation of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and to ensure that quality out-of-hospital care is available throughout the State.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>LONG-TERM STRATEGIC GOALS<\/strong><\/center><br \/>\n1. Emergency Medical Dispatching (EMD) shall be performed on 100% of 911 medical calls.<br \/>\n2. A statewide, standard of care shall be established.<br \/>\n3. Medical Director roles and responsibilities shall be clearly defined.<br \/>\n4. An impaired provider program shall be available for referral.<br \/>\n5. All services providing acute medical care and\/or transportation in an out-of-hospital setting shall be regulated by the Board of EMS.<br \/>\n6. All EMS providers expected to provide medical care to a patient shall be regulated by the Board of EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Ratified on December 7, 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VISION Kansas Emergency Medical Services (EMS) shall be an out-of-hospital, acute healthcare system providing an established standard of care through the utilization of promising practices and oversight. BOARD PURPOSE To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":447,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7196,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions\/7196"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ksbems.org\/ems\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}