KEN HOFFMAN
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Ken Hoffman is the County EMS Chief/EMS Coordinator - Deputy Chief of Fire Administration, who serves under the Fire Chief.  He is also a active Paramedic/Firefighter with McKinley County and still takes calls.  Furthermore, he currently serves as the developer and permanent parliamentarian of the McKinley County EMS advisory and currently the Chairman,  and Chairman of Western ReTraC.

 

Previous to these appointments, he was the Career Operations Supervisor for the McKinley County Fire Marshal's Office.  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. 

 

Mr. Hoffman has been working for the county for 19 years now; however he has a total of more then 29 years of experience in emergency medicine, fire suppression and emergency management 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 training 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 is the development and manning of our stations;  recruitment and training is paramount 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.  

Chief Hoffman's responsibilities include:

Managing the County EMS system
Deputy Chief of Operations
Emergency Management Operations
The administration and fiscal agent for the EMS fund act for 29 entities.
Obtaining Grant monies.
Management of the Local EMS Advisory Board
County Pharmacy officer.
Purchasing and procurement of all EMS supplies (this duty is delegated as needed).
EMS Training coordination,
EMS CEU Training.
Coordination or actual instruction of Initial EMS Training for First Responder and EMT-Intermediate and EMD (EMT-Basic is left to the college branch or to Gallup Fire).
Coordination and actual instruction of Specialized Carded courses to include PHTLS (Course Coordinator), AMLS, PePP and other carded courses.
Development of the Training Facility.
Evaluation of the EMS system.
Quality Assurance.
Investigations concerning Licensure.
All EMS Operations.
Immunization program and OSHA compliance for the EMS and Fire Service.

 

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