This presentation will describe how to gather and use EMS 9-1-1 falls-related call information to identify patterns and predictors of falls in the community and in assisted living facilities.
The speakers will describe their roles as EMS dispatch and the Fire Department in working with their local falls prevention coalition and share how they were able to use EMS call data to make a real and lasting impact around falls prevention in their community, including a 12% overall reduction in 911 calls related to falls.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Describe the collaborative activities between a falls prevention coalition and EMS/fire department;
- Examine strategies to collect and analyze EMS 911 call data for falls prevention
- Formulate ideas for using EMS 911 call data to develop interventions to address patterns and predictors of falls;
- Analyze fall reduction programs focused on data collection called "Prevent the Fall, Prevent the Call" (Assisted Living and Nursing Home Facilities) and "Pinellas Park C.A.R.E.S: Community Assistance through Resources, Education and Safety" (Residential) to reduce frequent 911 callers for falls and lift assists.
Lori Collins
911 Database Analyst
Pinellas County Safety & Emergency Services, Florida
Lori has spent the last 42 years in fire and life safety education. She has extensive experience presenting at local and national conferences, creating curriculum, presenting programs to all ages and publishing life safety books as well as a monthly column in APCO for 10 years. She has taught at the National Fire Academy and loves being part of an amazing community of Life Safety Educators.
Jillian Rose
Fire & Life Safety Educator
Pinellas Park Fire Department
Jillian is a Florida State Certified Fire & Life Safety Educator for the City of Pinellas Park Fire Department located in Pinellas County, Florida. Her primary passion is keeping her community safe through innovative public education programs designed for all ages to provide the knowledge and skills necessary to promote safer and healthier citizens to enhance their awareness of life safety. Getting people involved in fall prevention is a tough topic that many people shy away from, however her fall prevention efforts have brought in audiences of over 500 people for one viewing. Currently, Jillian is launching a new fall prevention program called Pinellas Park C.A.R.E.S. (Community Assistance through Resources, Education, and Safety). The Pinellas Park C.A.R.E.S. program monitors statistics of older adults that have suffered a fall and will speak on how she is assisting her fire department in being proactive to prevent future falls with the help of education and resources that serve seniors at the national, state and/or community level.
Donna Bethge (Moderator)
Aging Services Program Specialist
Administration for Community Living
Donna Bethge is an Aging Services Program Specialist in the Office of Nutrition and Health Promotion Programs at the Administration for Community Living (ACL), Administration on Aging. She serves as the lead for the Falls Prevention grant program and as the Program Officer for the Chicago Housing Authority’s grant. Before joining the team at ACL, Donna worked in the Aging Network in Maryland for 10 years with Area Agencies on Aging and an assisted living community, developing and implementing programs for older adults, as well as supporting and promoting evidence-based programs. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Organizational Management from Northern Kentucky University.
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We live in a very rural area of Northern California, so trying to get 911 data is difficult as half of the people have cell phones and other half have home phones. How can you easily collect data in area as ours? Thanks.