MS Ambulance Alliance- MAA

09/29/2025

Mark your calendar for this free screening event

🎀 Early detection saves lives! Join us for a FREE Breast & Cervical Cancer Screening Event for women ages 21–64 who do not have insurance or are underinsured.

📍 MS Trade Mart, 1200 Mississippi Street
📅 Friday, October 17 | 10:00 AM – 2:00 PM
💗 Free blood pressure & glucose checks included

✅ Pre-registration is required by September 30. Call 601-576-7466 or scan the QR code on the flyer to sign up.

09/14/2025

Think this would work in the USA? Mississippi?We know drivers don’t pull to the right and often seem confused where to move to- is this a solution?

In Germany, whenever traffic comes to a standstill, drivers must shift to the shoulders on both sides of the road, leaving a clear path down the middle for emergency vehicles. This practice, known as traffic education, is a rule that deserves to be adopted everywhere.🚗💗

09/05/2025

Innovation for MS that has been working in other states to handle low acuity calls by nurses.

Hinds County is launching a 911 Nurse Navigation system in October 2025 to connect nurses with 911 callers, reduce unnecessary ambulance dispatches and emergency room visits, and provide appropriat…

08/21/2025

We're Hiring!!

A new Executive Director job is available in Mississippi. Check it out on Journal of Emergency Medical Services.

08/20/2025

Prayers for the New Orleans EMS paramedic hit by a vehicle today. Such a tragedy.
This happens way too often in EMS. The MAA urges the public to slow down when you see public safety stopped and move to the other lane when at all possible. You should be slow enough to stop if needed.
Since July 2007, MS has a “Move Over Law.”
The law means a motorist passing an emergency vehicle on the side of the road must slow down and yield the right of way by changing lanes, thus keeping at least one lane between them where possible. If a lane change is impossible because of road or traffic conditions, a motorist must slow down and be prepared to stop, if needed, to prevent collisions.

08/11/2025

What a great idea! Interesting these are classified as “listed buildings.”
Does the USA still have any phone booths?

Did you know the famous red telephone boxes in the U.K. are re-purposed as  defibrillators because they are classed as ‘listed buildings’ and cannot legally be knocked down and they were never being used as a phone, so now the iconic red telephone boxes get a second life as public defibrillator stations!

(Others even get used as mini public ‘book for book libraries’) 🇬🇧 ☎️🏥📕

08/04/2025

Congratulations to Dr. Sessums and Dr. Williams

As you may know, our former Program Director, Dr. Benji Sessums, has accepted the position to serve as the Dean of Health Sciences at Jones College. He leaves behind a legacy of success in the classroom and expansion of, not only the EMS program, but all health-related programs at Jones College.

Dr. Eric Williams has been named to serve as the new Program Director for the Jones College EMT-Paramedic program. He is a 2008 graduate of Jones College in Paramedicine and went on to receive his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Mississippi in Public Health and his Doctorate from Delta State University in 2020. Prior to his return to Jones in 2014, he served as an EMS instructor for other colleges and as an Assistant Professor at the university level.

For the last 11 years, he has served as the Assistant Director for our program as well as the Lead Instructor for over 20 paramedic cohorts.
Dr. Williams is a member of numerous advisory boards and committees for multiple state and national EMS groups and foundations. He was also heavily involved or the primary author of virtually all Mississippi EMS curriculum over the last decade and has shaped EMS policy and education throughout the nation. He speaks at numerous conferences throughout the Southeast each year with his entertaining but memorable style. He has also been instrumental in the production and filming of the new campaign of EMS advocacy and awareness commercials you may have seen through the Mississippi Center for Advancement of Prehospital Medicine. He is a published author, syndicated columnist, and has served as a public health expert on several nationwide radio programs. In rare moments of free time, he enjoys high-end woodworking, and his shop which has even been featured on television.

Dr. Williams takes over officially as Program Director on August 8.

08/04/2025

Congratulations Graduates 🎓 🚑

With our 2025 Jones College Paramedic class graduating at the end of the summer, we want to begin spotlighting them and their accomplishments throughout the last year. Lacy Braddock is from Stringer and completed her EMT in 2023 and Advanced EMT in 2024. She works for EMServ of South Central Regional Medical Center and her primary preceptor is Ms. Sarah McFadden of AAA Ambulance Service. Lacy is the essence of determination… balancing work, school, and being a mother to six children. She proves each day that resilience isn’t a word- it’s a lifestyle. We wish Lacy much success in the future and are proud to call her a

05/23/2025

EMS WEEK 2025
WE CARE. FOR EVERYONE.
Thank you, Governor Tate Reeves for this proclamation recognizing EMS professionals on the ground and in the air. Daily we care for the citizens of MS and it is an honor to do so.
Your support of EMS is appreciated.

Our EMS workers play a vital role in providing lifesaving care to Mississippians — and they stand ready to serve us around the clock.

Proud to proclaim Emergency Medical Services Week in Mississippi.

THANK YOU, EMS teams!

05/18/2025

We Care. For Everyone.
EMS Week May 18-24, 2025
It is a special group of healthcare professionals that choose this as a career: from the dispatcher taking a call from someone in distress and giving them CPR instructions over the phone to provide to the person in crisis - to the healthcare clinicians that arrive by your side to provide comfort and care for your injury or illness. A Special Group.
In a state with so many rural counties, MS EMS is often the only healthcare provider in the county.
If you see these EMS first responder professionals or know one, thank them for providing care and choosing this as a career.

Today marks the beginning of EMS week, 2025.
This year’s theme is “We Care. For Everyone.” EMS professionals have been doing this for over 150 years, since the Civil War.

EMS Week recognizes the never-ending commitment, service, and sacrifice that our Nation’s EMS providers put forth every day.

This week, take the time to look around at your colleagues, acknowledge the good work they do, and be thankful for this profession. It is a calling, and it saves lives.

04/17/2025

If you are an EMT, nurse, a provider, or any healthcare provider, we would love to have you at the MTSCF Trauma Symposium in Natchez, MS May 5th-7th. The link to register- https://mstraumafoundation.org

03/07/2025

EMS is referenced many times as not being prepared with protocols or able to identify adrenal crisis. Individuals with adrenal insufficiency (AI) are at risk of acute adrenal crisis and death, particularly during illness or trauma, and may require rapid treatment with parenteral glucocorticoid such as hydrocortisone to manage a crisis. Individuals carry an emergency self-injection kit but state having a hard time administering it in a crisis. There is no auto injector at this time.

Does your agency have a protocol for adrenal crisis?

NADF is proud to announce the publication of "People with Adrenal Insufficiency who are in Adrenal Crisis are Frequently Unable to Self-Administer Rescue Injections". Read more here: EndocrinePractice.org/article/S1530-891X(25)00064-3/fulltext. Sponsored by

American Association of Clinical Endocrinology