By July 2013 all county-level public safety comm centers in West Virginia are required to have trained their dispatchers to provide emergency medical dispatching (EMD) services, and to bear the costs of training and any extra staffing. Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin signed the legislation last month after legislators approved the bill with little debate. According to the legislative analyst, 21 counties are already providing EMD services, and another 20 are planning to provide it. Another seven counties said they don’t have EMD plans. View the bill’s history here, and download (pdf) the final text here. Also read about one county’s financial dilemma is implementing the new requirement.
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