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Minutes
April 25, 2024
The JPA Executive Board met this date virtually via ZOOM. Present: Mayor Robert Simison, Kuna Fire
Commissioner Rebekah Luther,Ada County Commissioner Rod Beck,Ada County Commissioner Tom
Dayley, and Eagle Fire Commissioner Josh Tanner.
Others present: Kris Blume, Mark Babson, Ryan Larrondo, Shawn Rayne, Dayton Reed,Jeremy Schabot,
Jon Roundy, Peder Humlen and Tyler Lewis.
CALL TO ORDER
The meeting is called to order at 2:00 pm by Chairperson Beck.
CHANGES TO THE AGENDA
No Changes
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Motion to approve the minutes from the January 25, 2024, meeting is made by Tanner
and seconded by Simison. Motion Carries.
OLD BUSINESS
Update from the Administrative Committee
We have had a meeting with ESO to discuss one patient-one chart. They tell us they are working on the
project however we don't have a date certain. ESO has announced the implementation of apple iOS.
This will allow us to use devices that are less expensive and complete charts on iPads.
Ada County Paramedics was awarded ARPA funds to purchase new ZOLL Z ventilators. These ventilators
are a state-of-the-art product that is the standard of practice today. These are used when a patient who
is intubated is being transported. The ventilators have arrived, training will begin soon with roll out
expected in May.
The Admin Committee discussed who is and who is not a covered entity under HIPAA. We are going to
have the attorneys for the agencies look at the current Joint Powers Agreement to evaluate if we need to
amend the current JPA or create Business Associate Agreements with the agencies.
PulsePoint is the application that crowd sources CPR. Notifications are sent to people with cell phones,
that have downloaded the app,that CRP is needed near their location.
In 2020,ACCESS added Verified Responder to PulsePoint. Since that was done during pandemic it has
been a struggle to get Verified Responder fully implemented along with conflicts with the current CLAs.
The decision has been made to remove that option.
NEW BUSINESS
ACCESS Fiscal Year 2025 Budget
The fiscal year 2025 budget is presented to the Board.
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We had several asks for budget funds in FY25. Dr. Hilvers was asking for$150.000, and we will ask that
he bill for services. The Trauma Intervention Program has been removed. The biggest increase was for
the personnel sharing. We did add the Patient Safety Evaluation Program. This program allows us to
discuss calls, medication errors, Standing Written Orders deviation, QA/QI, etc. without those
conversations being discoverable.
The Admin Committee has established a subcommittee for disposable medical supplies. This
subcommittee will help us be fiscally responsible with the supplies being used, make sure supplies that
are delivered are used, standardize the quantity of supplies that is kept in each station and on each
apparatus county wide.
Motion to approve the ACCESS fiscal year 2025 budget as presented is made by Tanner
and seconded by Luther. Motion Carries.
GEMT
Tanner has been in touch with Juliette regarding GEMT. The consultant is helping with the questions.
Not confident it will get done this year but expecting next year. The questions are finally starting to slow
down from CMS.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting is adjourned at 2:18 pm.
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