Mike Taigman

Better EMS Performance

Mike Taigman uses more than four decades of experience to help EMS leaders and field personnel improve the care/service they provide to patients and their communities. Mike is the Improvement Guide for FirstWatch, a company which provides near-real time monitoring and analysis of data along with performance improvement coaching for EMS agencies.

He teaches Improvement Science in the Master’s in Healthcare Administration and Interprofessional Leadership at the University of California San Francisco and the Emergency Health Services Management Graduate Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. He’s the author of "Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19." Contact him at mtaigman@firstwatch.net.

Full list of Mike Taigman results

6 essential ingredients for resilience
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How does your resilience measure up?
Asking for what you need
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How to communicate with your family after a tragedy or difficult shift
It’s like immunizing your brain: Depression, PTSD and suicide prevention
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Seven resolutions for increasing your resilience to prevent psychological and emotional trauma in emergency services
3 rules to navigating relationships
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Relationships matter: Keep yours meaningful, happy and healthy through pandemic, polarized politics and civil discord stress
'We’ve become numb:' Combatting PPE fatigue
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More PPE training is unlikely to address PPE fatigue; here are 7 strategies that will
Family re-entry: Tips for giving your best to your loved ones
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4 simple questions to improve first responder family relationships
Remembering my friend and mentor, Jack Stout
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Jack Stout, the father of system status management and high-performance EMS, planted the seeds for patient-centered EMS
Evidence-based pandemic leadership
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Tracking COVID-19 cases, PPE supply and ambulance turnaround times to inform EMS response
Book Excerpt: ‘Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19’
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The personal risks and magnitude of suffering with the pandemic are something no one should have to face alone
Q&A: Data-driven EMS staffing for COVID-19
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Leaders from Montgomery County Fire & Rescue Service and Snohomish County Fire District detail how they’re monitoring the COVID-19 surge and preparing for the worst-case scenario