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Home My WebLink AboutM-82-0383r SOUTH FLURIDA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES . COORDINATING COUNCIL, INC. - Dade County: Monroe County: Post Office Box 525700 300 Simonton Street 10555 West Flagler Street Key West, Florida 33040 Miami, Florida 33152 Telephone (305) 294.9550 Telephone (305) 551-2200 s March 26, 1982 Mayor Maurice Ferre -_ 3500 Panamerican Drive _- Miami, Fl. 33133 Attn: Howard Gary, City Manager Dear Mayor Ferre: This is a formal request to the City of Miami for financial funding for the South Florida Emergency Medical Services Coordinating Council, Inc. in the amount of $10,000 for the 1982 calendar year. Since its inception, the South Florida Emergency Medical Services Coordinating Council has made great strides in coordinating and improving, where necessary, this region's abundant emergency medical resources. Most significant of our accomplishments is the progress made towards creation of a Trauma Service Net- work through the process of hospital categorization. The reasons for our success to date have been twofold: the outstanding cooper- ation between public and private institutions and agencies involved in emergency medical delivery and the fiscal support received from local and federal sources during the past year. During 1980-81, we received $400,000 from the Federal Government and $41,000 from the local community (including: $31,000 from Dade County and $5,000 from the City of Miami). For the coming fiscal year, we are requesting that each incorporated municipality in the South Florida region provide some minimal assistance to the Council. Our overall goal for calendar year 1982 is a minimum of $135,000. We are requesting municipalities for support in accordance with the enclosed support formula. The Dade County League of Cities, Inc. has endorsed both the organization and budget of the Council. Enclosed is a copy of the Council's recent brochure and some additional infor- mation regarding the program. Additionally, our Board of Directors and staff is prepared to meet with you to provide any other information you may need. 82-383 We hope the City Manager and the City Commissioner will again look with favor on our request and assist us in a proper presentation of this matter for action by the Council. The City Manager has scheduled an appointment with our repre- sentatives on Tuesday, April 6th at 10:30 A.M. cerely, 14, 1�11 - #AA,J C. Hirschma GR/sf Attachments A'*., 1 SUPPORT FORMULA FOR DADE COUNTY MUNICIPALITIES BEGINNING MAY 1 THROUGH DECEMBER 1982 2/3 OF FORMULA $33,332 (Population over 500,000) Dade (Unincorporated) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800,346 $10,000 (Population 100,000 - 500,000) Miami . . . . . . . . . .• . . . . . . . . . '. . . . . . . . . 346,931 Hialeah . . . . . . . . . 6 145,254 $8,000 (Population 50,000 - 100,000) Miami Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,298 $6,666 (Population 20,000 - 50,000) Coral Gables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,241 North Miami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,566 North Miami Beach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,481 $3,332 (Population 10,000 - 20,000) Homestead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,668 Opa Locka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,460 Miami Springs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,350 South Miami . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,884 $100 to $1,600 (According to Population) Other Municipalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,600 g2-383 SOUM rR/DA 9 EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES 1&ffc�,OUNCILINC. 00RDINATING ...P.O. BOX 525700 • MIAMI, FL 33152 • (305) 551-2200 (7*1 "... WE VIEW THE ESTABLISHMENT OF + ORGANIZED SYSTEMS OF EMERGENCY CARE DELIVERY AS ESSENTIAL TO THE COUNTY AND rr REGION ..." i, Would you want to be maimed for life because the right people and equipment were not available? Would you want your heart attack to go unanswered for 15 minutes? (You're probably dead) Would you want to be taken to an emergency room where there is no physician on duty or the right kind of a surgeon is not available when you need care? If you don't take this message seriously and help, any or all of these things and more might happen to you in Dade and Monroe Counties. We can go back to everybody doing their own thing just as we did some years ago. The South Florida EMS Council is conducting a small, but vital $135,000 Fund raising program to keep professional staff on duty to coordinate Emergency Medical Services in this area. DADE COUNTY Believe it! We have problems in Emergency Medical Services. Medicaid funds are drying up. Medicare payments are threatened to be reduced. Hospitals are considering closing emergency departments. More than 600,000 patients visited or were transferred to Dade County hospital Emergency Departments last year. Only 1.7% or more than 10,100 individuals had life threatening trauma. Several thousand others had life threatening illnesses. Members of the Council believe that there was a significant number of those who died among these groups whose lives could have been saved if there had been in Dade and Monroe Counties: 1. An organized trauma system. 2. A coordinative mechanism concerned with all Emer- gency Medical Services able to develop data on which system decisions can be soundly made. The Council will spend a major part of its time and resources during the next year organizing and coordinating the Trauma System in Dade and Monroe Counties. Federal monies were used to begin the Emergency Medical Services Council's vital work. Now is the time for state, local governments, private citizens, corporations and foundations to give priority to the support of this effort. WE ARE NOW ASKING YOU FOR HELP IN THIS 1982 CAMPAIGN. The Bottom Line Budget 1982 State Private sources to be raised Local government to be raised Personnel & Fringe benefits Office expenditures Consultants Other Program implementation ► 82-383 N