Penn State Health Life Lion’s first group of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) is set to graduate from the emergency medical services (EMS) company’s new four-month training program this month—a first for the company as it works to tackle staffing shortages. 

The PNC Foundation announced this week that it will be awarding HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College, $112,500 in grant funding over the next three years to train and recruit low- to moderate-income Black students for roles as police officers and emergency medical technicians (EMTs). 

Pennsylvania’s largest public cyber charter school, Harrisburg-based Commonwealth Charter Academy (CCA), launched a new partnership with Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) to offer an EMT program to CCA students. 

A new Medicare payment model being tested on three midstate EMS agencies will offer more options for caring with patients covered under Medicare