The meetings addressed critical issues affecting the EMS industry, including the staffing shortage and the need to recruit a new generation of EMS workers. Currently, there are not enough EMS employees to adequately serve all parts of the country, and rural areas are struggling to fund training and equipment assistance. Even outside of rural areas, EMS providers are seeing low recruitment in apprenticeship programs, leading to less EMS providers entering the workforce to provide care. For this reason, EMS Day on the Hill participants asked Congress to include EMS eligibility for existing federal grants that support apprenticeship programs, and ensure EMS access to federal grants targeting the development of the healthcare workforce. Congress recently allocated $1.5 billion through the American Rescue Plan to the Department of Health and Human Services to address the healthcare workforce shortage, but these funds are not available to EMS agencies and fire departments.