KEN HOFFMAN
Updated 12-11-2006

Ken Hoffman is the County EMS coordinator a Paramedic/Firefighter with McKinley County.  He also currently serves as the developer and permanent parliamentarian of the McKinley County EMS advisory, Vice Chair of 4C RETRAC, Region I EMS  Advisor and a Navy Reserve Corpsman/Paramedic among other titles.

 

Previous to these appointments, he was the EMS Supervisor for the McKinley County Fire Marshal's Office and a senior ICS Officer.  He was co-stationed at the Thoreau Fire District until December 1998 when the decision was made to obtain separate facilities due to restructuring.  However Thoreau EMS is still connected to Thoreau Fire during Fire Suppression activities. 

 

Ken has been working for the county for 16+ years now; however he has a total of more then 25 years of experience in emergency medicine and fire suppression in the private, public and military sectors. 

He is active in our local system to improve all levels of EMS such as, developing and writing protocols, quality assurance and quality inspection, establishing goals and criteria to achieve the best patient care, special skills, providing continued education, special training as required to include tactical for specialized personnel and general personal safety training along with the overall development of the EMS system in McKinley County. "One of my primary goals was the re-establishment of our EMS Advisory Board and developing the training center as bona-fide entity to serve the community".  

Ken's first experience was with Search and Rescue (Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Assoc.) at the age of 16 when he started to attend practices, and became a EMT-Basic that same year.

He actively supports more advanced skills in the Basic and Intermediate levels as most of New Mexico is rural set, actually classified as “Frontier” by the government, and the moneys available to send people to the Paramedic level is scarce (nonexistent in most areas) especially in our county.  

In conflict, Ken actually prefers fighting fires then EMS, "I guess it's just a twist of something different from time to time".

CDR Hoffman's responsibilities include:

The administration of the EMS fund act for 29 entities.
Obtaining Grant monies.
Management of the Local EMS Advisory Board
Managing the County EMS system.
Pharmacy officer.
Purchasing and procurement.
EMS Training coordination,
Directed EMS CEU Training.
Development of the Training Facility.
Evaluation of the EMS system.
Responsibility for billing for Ambulance Services.
Quality Assurance
Investigations concerning Licensure.

       

I am the one with the hand on the leg wound.                                                       Left to Right: HM3 Eric, Lt. B (with my M40) and me.
Not sure why others are still standing up unprotected, decoys??                       On the Boarder; training Federal Law Enforcement.

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