Excerpts from wrex.com:
Rockford Fire Chief Derek Bergsten has been selected to join a national panel focused on the future of emergency medical services. the EMS Agenda 2050.
Ten professionals with medical, fire and public health backgrounds will develop a roadmap of what the future of EMS holds for the country.
“I think the biggest idea is really linking up our emergency response to the entire health continuum. That involves the emergency room, the primary care physician that we’re all talking and working together to benefit that patient.”
Bergsten joins firefighters from LA, New York City and Boston on this panel. The first in-person meetings for the panel are scheduled for late 2017 in four cities across the country.
