JCF Celebration of Life
James Clifford Findeiss, who died on April 1, 2023, was a man who saw possibilities and possessed the intelligence, confidence, and stamina to turn those possibilities into reality. Always seeking to put his philosophy of “doing well by doing right” into practice, he combined his analytic and creative skills to change emergency medical care delivery in south Florida. In 1973 he co-founded Emergency Medical Services Associates (EMSA), which gradually established a new system of 24/7/365 physician on-site care in south Florida emergency departments. During this same time, as the first Medical Director of Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue and the Hialeah Fire Department, he initiated field care protocols for first responders. An early national leader in the new specialty of Emergency...