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A COMMITTEE ON ACCREDITATION OF CAAHEP

MARCH 2017 
CoAEMSP's New Technical Consultant
Wecome Keith Orloff!
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Staff Contact: Keith Orloff, keith@coaemsp.org or 214-703-8445, x113
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Recently Keith Orloff joined the CoAEMSP as a Technical Consultant. The addition of Keith will allow the CoAEMSP to continue providing world class customer service to its constituents and meet the needs of a growing organization.

Keith has over 40 years of progressive experience as a surgical technologist practitioner, educator, program director; as a college compliance coordinator and director of education; and as the national director of surgical technology for a ten-campus system.

From 2007 through 2016, he served as Executive Director of the Accreditation Review Council on Education in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting (ARC/STSA). His progressive volunteer leadership service in the surgical technology professional association includes Director, Vice-President and President of the Southern California society; founding Board member and Director for the California State Assembly; and Secretary of the Association of Surgical Technologists Board of Directors.

Other accomplishments include progressive leadership service as Chair of the national credentialing body in Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting after serving on its Exam Writing Committee; and service to the national accrediting Committee on Accreditation (ARC/STSA) as Director, Secretary/Treasurer, Vice-Chair and Chair. He previously served on the CAAHEP Bylaws Committee and currently serves on the CAAHEP Standards Committee.

Keith is collaborating on responsibilities related to drafting the official Site Visit Findings Letters, quality assurance and improvement, and the annual reports.

Keith's experience with the accreditation process is a great asset to the CoAEMSP team. We are excited he is joining us!
Resource Assessment Tool: Master Tracking Spreadsheet
Tracking each student from the beginning to the end can be a daunting task!  Patricia Tritt, CoAEMSP board member and chair of the Quality Improvement Subcommittee, created a Master Tracking Spreadsheet that programs may use to ease the task of tracking each student.

A sample form of this tracking resource form can be found here and on the Forms page of the CoAEMSP website for any program to download and utilize.
Workshop to be Held for Selected Participants
Site Visitor Applications Now Being Accepted
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Staff Contact: Jennifer Anderson Warwick, jennifer@coaemsp.org /  214-703-8445 x114
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The CoAEMSP is increasing its site visitor cadre and is seeking Paramedic educators and physicians to become site visitors for CoAEMSP. The training workshop will be hosted on November 30-December 1 in Minneapolis-
St. Paul for those applicants who have been selected to be site visitors.

FAQs were compiled to help answer the questions you may have regarding the workshop and can be found here.

Application (updated) can be found here.
Seats are Limited! Register Now!
Minneapolis/St. Paul CAAHEP Accreditation Workshop
JUNE 15-16
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL
Crowne Plaza AiRE-Mall of America



By the Numbers

EMTs and Paramedics Occupational Outlook

The United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics presents an informative summary of pay, job outlook, educational requirements, and more here. This can also be found on the CoAEMSP website here. This information is helpful for educators and their students.
U.S. Department of Education Information on Accreditation
The U.S. Department of Education provides information on accreditation for universities and higher education including accredited institutions, accreditor recognition criteria and process, recommendations on improving accreditation, and more here. This can also be found on the CoAEMSP website here. This information is helpful for educators and their students.
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Sincerely,
Jennifer S. Anderson Warwick, MA
CoAEMSP