Office of the Medical Director

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The Office of the Medical Director (OMD) is tasked to provide medical direction and oversight for the Fort Worth Reginal EMS System. We work closely with our partners at Fort Worth Fire and our member cities to continuously monitor and improve the out-of-hospital emergency medical care we provide to our communities”.

 


Purpose

Improving Systems and Educating Clinicians to Enhance Patient Outcomes

Vision

To be an integral member of a high-quality, evidenced-based, and outcome-driven mobile healthcare system.

Mission

To build quality into the mobile healthcare system through the enrichment of clinicians.

 

About Us

Jeffrey L. Jarvis, MD, MS, EMT-P, FACEP, FAEMS

Chief Medical Officer & System Medical Director

 

Jeffrey L. Jarvis System Medical Director Chief Medical Officer

OMD System Responsibilities

  • Clinical protocol and policy development
  • Clinician Credentialing
  • Clinical training
  • Continuing Education
  • Quality assurance
  • Quality improvement
  • Clinical performance monitoring
  • Patient outcome registry and feedback
  • Research

Contact Us

Phone
817-392-6840

Email
askomd@fortworthtexas.gov

Location
Office of the Medical Director
2900 Alta Mere Drive
Fort Worth
76116 

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Medical Control Advisory Board (MCAB)

By resolution, the City of Fort Worth established the Medical Control Board (MCAB) to advise the City about the clinical performance of the EMS System; review medical protocols and clinical policies and procedures for the EMS System and make recommendations to the Medical Director; to represent the interests of the medical community and First Responders, Medical Transportation Providers, and ambulance standby providers by making recommendations for improvements to the EMS System as needed; recommend and review research conducted within the associated service area of the EMS System.

MCAB is composed of the Medical Director of the Emergency Department (or designee) from each of the full-service hospitals located within the service area and physicians with specialties or sub-specialties of benefit in developing standards for emergency prehospital care.

 


MCAB Board Member Page Coming Soon

Clinical Documents

Protocols

Fort Worth Regional EMS System Out-of-Hospital & Mobile Integrated Healthcare Protocols (PDF, 19MB) last updated: 9/29/2025


Medical Directives

Documents coming soon!


Clinical Policies

Documents coming soon!


Equipment List

FWFD Drug Inventory List 25-07-01(PDF, 90KB) last updated: 9/29/2025

FRO - ECA Inventory List 25-07-01(PDF, 105KB) last updated: 9/29/2025

FRO - Basic Inventory List 25-07-01(PDF, 106KB) last updated: 9/29/2025

FRO - Paramedic Inventory List 25-07-01(PDF, 145KB) last updated: 9/29/2025


Clinical Performance

MAEMSA Clinical Performance Measures September 2024(PDF, 2MB) last updated: 9/29/2025

MAEMSA Clinical Performance Measure Definitions(PDF, 340KB) last updated: 9/29/2025