People: Stacie Selmi, Josh Duffy recognized for achievements

Two REMSA Health leaders were nationally recognized for their achievements at the American Ambulance Association annual conference and trade show in Nashville.

Stacie Selmi, REMSA Health’s emergency medical services operations supervisor was recognized as a Vanguard Award winner. Josh Duffy, REMSA Health’s director of support services, was recognized as an EMS Next Honoree.

Selmi has worked in the EMS profession for more than 37 years. She joined Mercy Ambulance, an ambulance provider in Washoe County in the early 1980s, as an emergency medical technician, earned her advanced EMT certification, and then attended the Daniel Freeman Paramedic Program.

Selmi returned to Northern Nevada and Mercy Ambulance to complete her internship and become a certified paramedic. After a relocation to the Pacific Northwest with Mercy Ambulance, she returned to Reno in 1997 to work with the Regional EMS Authority – now REMSA Health – as one of the region’s first paramedics.

Prior to her current role, Selmi worked as a field training officer and a continuous quality improvement coordinator. Over the course of her career, she launched the organization’s preceptor program for EMTs and paramedics and established its first electronic charting system.

Professionally, she was honored with the Veterans of Foreign Wars J. Edgar Hoover Regional Award and a Nevada Women’s Fund Woman of Achievement honor. Selmi is a second-generation Northern Nevadan who, in her teens, was a skeet-shooting champion.

Josh Duffy

Duffy joined REMSA Health in 2005 and has held positions including vehicle services technician, AEMT, logistics supervisor and procurement manager.

Currently, Duffy oversees the organization’s logistics division, which stocks and prepares ground ambulances for daily service and facilitates the delivery of supplies to the organization’s outlying locations.

He also oversees the fleet division, which handles the maintenance for more than 75 ground ambulances and support vehicles and the facilities maintenance program for all of the organization’s physical locations.

During his time with REMSA Health, Duffy has successfully revamped the organization’s uniform program, reimagined the ambulance speed-loading and service point system, implemented a tracking system for community healthcare equipment requests, negotiated a new fuel rewards program and upgraded the narcotics storage and security procedures. Duffy holds an associate degree in applied science and a bachelor’s degree in science from Columbia Southern University.