From left, Sarah Evans, Landon Loepker and Marcie Spears Post are Chaffee County EMS’s newest recruits from Colorado Mountain College. Photo by Chelsea DePetro.
Chaffee County’s five newest Emergency Medical Technicians (EMS) are recruits from Colorado Mountain College.
Along with fellow CMC graduates Ethan Printy and Zach Rocco (not pictured) Sarah Evans, Landon Loepker and Marcie Spears Post have received their EMT-Basic certification at CMC Salida during the fall 2022 semester.
The course is a rigorous, 12-credit, semester-long program, which includes lecture, lab, and clinicals. Since fall semester 2019, when the EMS program began at the Salida and Leadville campuses, students have had a 93 percent first-time pass rate for the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians testing, which is the certifying exam for EMTs.
During that same period, statewide the first-time pass rate was 76 percent and nationally it was only 68 percent. Currently, the state of Colorado is covering tuition for the program through the Cares Forward Act.
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