Strengthening Emergency Care Through Education, Outreach, and Innovation

By Amanda McClure, MHA, BSN, RN, vice president, throughput and flow, emergency and trauma services

Premier Health drives emergency care beyond the emergency department. Over the past year, our teams advanced emergency medicine services (EMS) outreach, event medicine, academic partnerships, and critical care transport, strengthening care for the community and supporting our clinicians.

We trained the next generation of prehospital clinicians by hosting more than 650 emergency medicine technicians and paramedics in hands-on clinical education. The EMS Center of Excellence delivered 400+ classes to 67 agencies, totaling nearly 6,000 continuing education hours, while hospital EMS roundtables brought leaders together to share best practices and align programs.

Our event medicine teams provided care for 160+ patients at the Dayton Air Show, 240 at the U.S. Air Force Marathon, Eldora Speedway events, and six additional community gatherings, reducing strain on local EMS and improving public safety.

In 2025, we transitioned the Wright State emergency medicine residency and faculty to Miami Valley Hospital and the Premier Physicians Network, enhancing academic partnerships and building a pipeline of future emergency medicine physicians and interdisciplinary caregivers.

CareFlight continues to evolve to meet the needs of our most critically ill patients. The program is actively preparing for a transition to the AW169 airframe and new aviation vendors in 2026. Additionally, our ground transport vendor has deployed a brand-new fleet of MICUs. Standardizing both air and ground fleets creates a safer, more reliable environment for our caregivers and ensures consistent, high-quality care during critical patient transports.

Together, these initiatives reflect a system-wide commitment to excellence, education, and community partnership—core elements of emergency care today and into the future.

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