Grants to Utah governmental, nonprofit, and for-profit emergency medical service providers, including ambulance agencies, paramedic agencies, dispatch agencies, law enforcement, and designated agencies to improve the provision of emergency services. Verification or updates to the EMS personnel roster must be completed prior to applying.
Per capita allocation is determined by the following:
(a) County classification,
(b) Number of EMS state licensed personnel in each provider agency actively involved in the provision of emergency medical services.
(c) The level of licensure of each of the EMS personnel, with weighting factors as follows:
EMD, EMR = 1 point
EMT = 2 points
EMT-Intermediate and AEMT (advanced) = 3 points
Paramedic = 4 points
In FY2024, approved grant applicants may use funds for continuing medical education (CME) or for initial training. No addition application is needed. CME is defined as continuing “medical” education exclusively for agency pre-hospital EMS personnel.
Estimated Total Program Funding:
Unless otherwise specified, grants will begin July 1, 2023 and terminate June 15, 2024. All grant funds unexpended at that time will revert to the Department for future reallocation. All FY2024 expenditures must be completed by June 15, 2024. The deadline for documentation of reimbursement requests for FY2024 is June 30, 2024.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the EMS Bureau Grants Coordinator, Gay Brogdon for assistance in grant preparation. Contact Information:
- Guy Dansie, EMS Director 801-560-1544 gdansie@utah.gov
- Gay Brogdon, Grants Coordinator 801-520-6610 gbrogdon@utah.gov
- Dan Camp, Rural EMS Liaison 801-560-2821 dcamp@utah.gov
- Marcy Willits, Rural EMS Liaison 801-541-5740 mwillits1@utah.gov
- Linda Simmons, Rural EMS Liaison 435-459-1549 lindasimmons@utah.gov