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  • Strengthening emergency response: OAPC commends Toronto’s action on paramedic staffing

    The OAPC is commending Mayor Chow and Toronto City Council for taking bold and effective action to address growing pressures on the 911 emergency response system by increasing the number of frontline paramedics serving the City of Toronto.  As Ontario’s largest and most densely populated urban center, Toronto has faced rising challenges in maintaining timely emergency medical response. High call volumes, heavy traffic congestion, and prolonged offload delays at hospitals have put considerable strain on paramedic resources and response times.......

  • Seven paramedics honoured with Ontario Medal for Bravery

    We’re thrilled to announce that the Ontario government has presented seven paramedics from across the province with the prestigious Ontario Medal for Paramedic Bravery. The medals were given out at a special ceremony held at the Royal Ontario Museum. The paramedics were honoured for their extraordinary acts of bravery, such as wrestling a weapon away from a patient in crisis, saving them and the first responders on the scene from harm, rappelling into a collapsed excavation pit to triage injured construction......

Origin of the OAPC

The Ontario Association of Paramedic Chiefs (OAPC) was formed to allow members of the EMS/Paramedic industry to come together to develop common strategies for optimizing the transition to municipal control of ambulance service within the province.

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The OAPC has an organizational process that features six committees (groups) that oversee a number of working sub-committees, feeding information and recommendations to the Board.  The core areas are:  Strategic Analysis, Operations, Performance Standards, Professional Standards, Education & Research and Public Relations & Image Building.

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