Online EMS Education Pioneers Announce Merger

CentreLearn, EMSED.COM Join Forces to Offer Customized Online Learning Programs

Shrewsbury, Pa. – Two premier companies specializing in online training for emergency medical services personnel, CentreLearn, LLC, and EMSED.COM, LLC, have merged and formed a new company called CentreLearn Solutions, LLC. The new company will do business under its new name and continue to use existing EMSED.COM and CentreLearn trade names, officials said. “In today’s cost-conscious training environment, EMS organizations are looking for ways to accomplish their training goals with the highest scheduling convenience and lowest cost,” said Dr. James Eastham, CEO of EMSED.COM. “CentreLearn Solutions is the only company that can provide the full range of flexible services to meet those goals.”

The merger grew out of the close business relationship the two companies have had over the years, said CentreLearn CEO Jason Paluck, a New York State and nationally registered paramedic. “EMSED has had impressive growth using the CentreLearn Learning Management System, and the merger will give clients faster and more flexible ways to customize their elearning programs,” he said.

During the first quarter of 2006, the new company will be unveiling a new modular version of its learning management system, with new functionality for transcript and compliance tracking, training resource management, and online registration services.

EMSED.COM, LLC, based in Shrewsbury, Pa., has been providing turn-key custom online education solutions and CECBEMS-approved online EMS continuing education lessons to its organizational clients since 1999. In 2004, the company expanded its outreach by partnering with Emergency Medical Services magazine to launch the EMS Online Education Center (learn.emsed.com), offering competitively priced multimedia online CE courses to individual EMS providers and group discounts to subscriber organizations.

CentreLearn, LLC, based in Montebello, N.Y., began development of the CentreLearn Learning Management System in 2000. The CentreLearn LMS currently delivers online learning to more than 80,000 emergency services and public health personnel in federal, state and local organizations, including the Officer Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service, state health departments, ambulance services and fire departments nationwide. Recently, the National Guard has started using the CentreLearn LMS and EMSED.COM multimedia content to deliver online EMS continuing education to nearly 10,000 Army National Guard medics stationed around the world.

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