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The Pittsburgh Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (PEMS) provides emergency medical services and medically directed rescue services for the City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a bureau of the Department of Public Safety (DPS), along with the Bureaus of Police , Administration, Fire , and Animal Care and Control.
The Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania is a multi-hospital consortium based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is claimed to be one of the world's premiere centers of Emergency Medicine and EMS development. It currently ranks sixth for residencies in emergency medicine by reputation. [1]
As of 2004, the largest "Private Enterprise" provider of contract EMS services in North America was American Medical Response, [46] based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The second-largest US EMS provider is Rural/Metro Corporation, [47] based in Scottsdale, Arizona; Rural/Metro Corporation also provides EMS services to parts of Latin America ...
Any provider between the levels of Emergency medical technician and Paramedic is either a form of EMT-Intermediate or an Advanced EMT. The use of the terms "EMT-Intermediate/85" and "EMT-Intermediate/99" denotes use of the NHTSA EMT-Intermediate 1985 curriculum and the EMT-Intermediate 1999 curriculum respectively.
Many different emergency medical services responded to the WTC. Some of these agencies are listed below: FDNY EMS responded, as part of the FDNY (see below) Brighton Volunteer Ambulance [23] New York Presbyterian Emergency Medical Services [24] - lost 2 members on 9/11. Bensonhurst volunteer ambulance service, sent 2 ambulances and 2 p.o.v.
Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics with medical training beyond basic first aid. [1] [2] Founded in 1967 to serve the predominantly Black Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, it was staffed entirely by African Americans.
EMA - Emergency Medical Attendant; EMA-D - Emergency Medical Attendant - Defibrillator; EMD - Emergency Medical Dispatcher; EMPACT - Emergency Medical Patient: Assessment Care and Treatment [citation needed] EMR - Emergency Medical Responder; EMSI - Emergency Medical Services Instructor [citation needed] EMT - Emergency Medical Technician
Emergency Medical Services Nancy Lee Caroline (June 27, 1944 – December 12, 2002) was an American physician and writer who worked in emergency medical services (EMS). She was medical director of Freedom House , an emergency ambulance service that assisted underserved populations in Pittsburgh in the 1960s and 1970s.