Sustaining Access to Vital Emergency Medical Services Act of 2000

Sustaining Access to Vital Emergency Medical Services Act of 2000 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to provide for improved emergency medical services in rural areas, including the hiring of emergency medical service personnel, the recruitment of voluntary personnel, training in emergency medical services, and acquisition of medical service vehicles and equipment.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a volunteer emergency medical service provider tax credit of $500.

Requires the Secretary to study the means by which rural areas can be identified for purposes of designating areas in which the cost of providing ambulance services would be expected to be higher than in more populated areas.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the 2001 and 2002 reduction in inflation adjustments for ambulance services and to increase such adjustment by one percent for 2001.