Fire & EMS Consulting Services
Fire & EMS Consulting to Improve Efficiency and Effectiveness.
Today’s fire and emergency medical service (EMS) departments face an ever-growing number of challenges never seen before in history. Outside experts like PAA can deliver objective, unbiased consulting services to improve department efficiency and effectiveness.
PAA has a robust Fire and EMS consulting practice and, to date, has assisted over 60 local fire and emergency services departments. Our consultants are all senior-level public safety executives who are committed to public service. The overarching goal is to serve municipalities and public safety agencies as they work through cultivating and encouraging good governance and transformational change.
Value-Added Fire & EMS Consulting
PAA provides Fire and EMS consulting advice that goes beyond a report by providing leading-edge service delivery findings and recommendations that are data driven, insightful and will help achieve remarkable results to meet today’s critical Fire and EMS challenges.
At PAA, our consultants begin every analysis by asking a fundamental question: What are the service delivery goals of our municipal client? From there, we conduct a comprehensive review of all aspects of service operations. We offer value-added consulting across a wide range of functional areas, including:
Fire & EMS Governance / Consolidation
Combined services, mergers, separations, joint districts, etc.
Hazard Analysis
Impact of changing community hazards. Matching community needs to department design.
Financial Comparisons & Analysis
Bench-marking to local communities and determining areas of budget savings.
Staffing Review
Volunteer to paid staff, increased full-time employees, analysis of needed staffing.
Station Location
Adding stations, combining stations, redistribution/location of stations with Geographical Information System (GIS) Mapping.
Apparatus Review
Matching apparatus to community hazards, staffing, station locations, and budget/financing.
Serving Fire & EMS Departments for 30 Years
At PAA, we work closely with our municipal clients using a scientific approach that combines measurement (against State and Federal standards) and modeling with our leadership experience and the community’s needs. In addition to improving overall department performance, our Fire and EMS clients have successfully implemented governance changes, new staffing deployments, upgraded Fire and EMS response times and initiated EMS/critical care transport.
PAA has been helping fire and EMS departments become more efficient for almost three decades and is poised to serve many more in the years to come.
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