Resources for Public Safety, EMS, and Government Leaders
High-quality guidance, industry updates, and practical tools to help your organization strengthen operations, compliance, finance, and system performance.
Our resource library brings together the most relevant insights from across emergency services, healthcare systems, law enforcement, and government administration. Explore actionable advisories, downloadable templates, research studies, and expert-led discussions designed to support informed decision-making.
Industry News & Advisories
Expert Commentary and Operational Advisories
Stay current with the trends, regulatory updates, and emerging challenges shaping EMS, public safety, medical transport, and government program operations. This section includes:
- Guidance on state and federal regulatory changes
- Best-practice alerts for EMS, law enforcement, and public health systems
- Operational advisories for administrators and field leaders
- Trend analyses on staffing, deployment, finance, and technology
Recent Industry News:
- Emerging & New Technologies for EMS
With breakthrough innovations like drones, AI, and automated CPR, EMS technology continues to revolutionize the field of emergency response. - EMS1 — Breaking EMS News
Timely updates on EMS operations, staffing challenges, field safety issues, and nationwide EMS trends. - JEMS — Journal of Emergency Medical Services News
Industry-wide analysis, field leadership perspectives, and important updates on EMS operations and policy. - NEMSMA — EMS Leadership & Legislative News
Advocacy alerts, EMS leadership advisories, and state and federal policy updates affecting EMS agencies.
NEMSAC Issued Advisories & Opinions
Advisories are drafted by one of the council’s standing committees or by ad hoc committees created to address specific needs. The entire council then votes to approve an advisory as final.
JEMS RSS News Feed:
- A minor was seriously injured after at least two chain-reaction crashes on I-293 in […]
- Sacramento Fire Department said 79 people made 5,191 EMS responses from 2021 to 2025, […]
- An Alabaster woman was treated and taken to a local hospital after being electrocuted […]
- New Orleans officials and NOLA Public Schools are finalizing a deal to use the […]
- Huntsville Planning Commission approved two Huntsville Hospital free-standing emergency rooms in North Huntsville and […]
- Hall Ambulance held a graduation ceremony in Bakersfield for three EMT Academy graduates who […]
CCG Articles in EMS World magazine
- Leader’s Digest: Reducing the Refusal Risk (Nov 2021)
- Leader’s Digest: Diversity and Understanding (Sep 2021)
- Leader’s Digest: Keep Your Leadership Relevant (Jul 2021)
- Leader`s Digest: COVID—So What Went Wrong? (Mar 2021)
- Leader`s Digest: Recruitment and Retention During the Pandemic (Jan 2021)
Downloadable Files
Toolkits, Templates & Practical Resources
Access ready-to-use documents designed to support system planning, administrative efficiency, and compliance. These downloads provide practical support for:
- Operational checklists
- Performance dashboards
- Financial and revenue cycle worksheets
- Governance and policy templates
- Deployment and scheduling tools
National Reports, Projects, & Initiatives
Client Tool Kits
Medicare Ground Ambulance Data Collection System (GADCS) Items
- CMS Cost Collection Tool Review 7/2019
- CMS Cost Collection Tool Report 7/2020
- CMS Presentation 12/2019
- CMS Presentation 7/2020
- CMS Presentatioin 8/2021
- CMS Presentation Labor 10/2021
- CMS Cost Collection FAQ’s
- CMS Proposed Tool Revision
- CCG Cost Reporting Presentation
- CCG Cost Collection Practice Tool
White Papers & Research Studies
In-Depth Analysis and Evidence-Based Insights
Explore detailed research studies and white papers from our consultants and national partners. These reports examine the issues impacting today’s emergency response and healthcare coordination environment, including:
- System design and deployment models
- Response performance analytics
- Clinical quality and patient safety outcomes
- Municipal and state-level EMS regulatory structures
- Integration of EMS, public safety, and healthcare systems
Research on Fatigue in EMS
Research on Response Times
- Association Between EMS Response Time & Motor Vehicle Crash Mortality in the U.S.
- Using Geospatial Analysis to Reduce Response Times
- Shorter Response Times effect on OHCA survival
- EMS Delays Effects on Stroke & MI Patients: ABSTRACT
- Dynamic Deployment’s Effect of EMS Response Times: ABSTRACT
- Coverage versus Response Objectives in EMS:ABSTRACT
- Association Between Motor Vehicle Accident Mortality & EMS Response Times
- By-Stander AED use effect on extending EMS Response & Patient Survivability
Webinars & Podcasts
Expert Discussions with Leaders Across the Field
Watch or listen to conversations featuring CCG advisors, industry experts, and national thought leaders. These sessions offer:
- Practical strategies for administrators and chiefs
- Case studies from municipal, hospital-based, and private systems
- Deep dives on clinical, operational, and financial challenges
- Technology, data, and future-readiness insights
EMS and Systems of Care Webinar Series
— with Mic Gunderson & Tom Bouthillet in collaboration with the American College of Cardiology
- Making the Leap to Improvement Science
- Structuring Your Organization for Quality
- Structuring Your System for Quality
- Clinical Specialty Teams: Expanding Your Clinical Quality Program Capacity
- EMS Clinical Specialist
- Clinical Performance Requirements
- Project Teams, Charters and Senior Management
- Implementing Time Sensitive Care Coalitions
- Improving Accuracy of EMS STEMI Alerts
- Systems-Level Measurement & Improvement
- Advanced Performance Measure Development: Process Capability Indexes
- Composite Measures: Use and Development
- Costly Errors in the Misdiagnosis of Data Variations
- Data Aggregation: Looking Across Cases, Organizations and Regions
Quality Over Coffee Web Series
— join Mic Gunderson for brief and casual discussion about topics related to quality management. While the content is focused on EMS, it will also be pertinent to hospital staff with an interest in quality improvement of systems of care for time sensitive conditions. The length of these episodes vary, but are typically around 5 minutes long.