Read the following text from the National Institute of Health (NIH), which shows the impact of the 1972 Committee on the Costs of Medical Care that created Regional Medical Programs (RMP) to organize and disseminate health care advances across the nation.
RMPs had a tremendous impact upon the development of EMS. RMP funding helped create a number of EMS systems and train emergency medical technicians. The primacy of heart disease, cancer, and stroke within the RMPs was impressed upon EMS, resulting in a system designed to combat these conditions. The concept of regionalized health care became commonly accepted in EMS. For example, taking trauma or burn patients to specialty centers became expected of EMS providers. Finally, the delivery of technologically advanced intensive care to patients located throughout a region, a core role of EMS, reflected the philosophy of RMPs. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Based on your reading of this excerpt on the value of how RMP improved EMS, what happened to EMS services in the mid-1960s?
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There would be increased funding for EMS workers to receive increased wages.
There would be increased funding for EMS workers to receive increased wages.
An increase in traffic accident awareness would lead to increased funding for technologically advanced medical equipment for EMS.
An increase in traffic accident awareness would lead to increased funding for technologically advanced medical equipment for EMS.
It would open up opportunities for all EMS workers to gain a full college education.
It would open up opportunities for all EMS workers to gain a full college education.
New technology in radio communication would allow EMS to serve a much wider regional area.