EMS Today 2019: James O. Page, John P. Pryor Awards Presented

During the EMS Today Opening Ceremonies & General Session on Wednesday, February 20, JEMS Editor in Chief A.J. Heightman, Executive Editor Mike McEvoy, and CEO of Hartwell Medical Gary R Williams presented the EMS Today annual awards. The awards were sponsored this year by Hartwell Medical. ALSO: Photos from Day 1 of EMS Today The first award was the 2019 James O. Page Leadership Award. It encourages EMS personnel and EMS agencies to deliver quality service, gain the respect of their colleagues in the field of EMS, and fight to do what’s in the best interest of patient care. The award recognizes an individual or organization who exhibits the drive and tenacious effort to resolve important EMS issues or bring about positive change in an EMS system. The James O. Page Leadership Award is not a single achievement award but rather one that recognizes great personal or agency effort to achieve goals. This year’s award goes to Acadian Ambulance Chairman and CEO Richard Zuschlag (above pic). He was instrumental in creating Acadian Ambulance in 1971 with his two partners and made Acadian a leader in emergency communications, with Acadian receiving the first FCC license to transmit telemetry. He helped build a fleet of state-of-the-art ambulances, launched Air Med to help medics reach patients in remote locations, and founded the National EMS Academy in response to a chronic shortage of paramedics. Over the past 47 years, Acadian has touched the lives of mil...
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