Presidential Document2024-11387
National Emergency Medical Services Week, 2024
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May 22, 2024
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May 17, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 22, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 44903-44904]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-11387]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 100 / Wednesday, May 22, 2024 /
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Proclamation 10760 of May 17, 2024
National Emergency Medical Services Week, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
During National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Week,
we honor our Nation's courageous EMS providers, who put
it all on the line to deliver urgent, life-saving care
to people across our country in times of great need.
Whether paramedics, emergency medical technicians, 911
and 988 dispatchers, or other first responders, EMS
providers routinely work long hours away from loved
ones to keep other families whole. They risk their own
lives and health, staring down storms, floods, or fires
and rushing to rescue people in need. For many
Americans, they are a beacon of hope in some of life's
toughest moments and let us know we are going to be
okay. We have a duty to show up for them the way they
show up for us.
That is why my Administration is working to get every
EMS department in America the equipment and support
they deserve. During my first months in office, we
passed the American Rescue Plan, investing billions of
dollars to support EMS roles. Today, we are working
with State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments
to keep EMTs on the job and to help them handle trauma
and burn out. We are working to get departments the
resources they need to provide better training and
equipment for EMS providers. To help ease staffing
shortages, we are also helping communities recruit and
train more firefighters, who often provide emergency
medical services as well. We are fighting to ease the
burden of student loans. In all, we have cancelled debt
for 4.6 million student borrowers, including for nearly
900,000 public service workers by fixing the Public
Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which many non-profit
or government EMS provider employees could be eligible
for.
I have often said that courage lies in every heart, and
the expectation is that it will one day be summoned. It
is summoned every day for America's EMS providers. They
embody the best of our Nation--bravery, honor, and
respect, never failing to answer the call to help
others. This week, we thank them and the unions that
protect so many of our EMS providers and promise to
always have their backs.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws
of the United States, do hereby proclaim May 19 through
May 25, 2024, as National Emergency Medical Services
Week. I call upon public officials, doctors, nurses,
paramedics, EMS providers, and all the people of the
United States to observe this week with appropriate
programs, ceremonies, and activities to honor our brave
EMS workers and to pay tribute to the EMS providers who
have lost their lives in the line of duty.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
seventeenth day of May, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
eighth.
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