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The national emergency number in the United States is 9-1-1. The number works for all three emergency services. In most cases, a 9-1-1 call will be answered at a central facility, usually referred to as a Public Safety Answering Point, and operated, in most cases, by the police.
Emergency medical services in the United States (1 C, 35 P) Pages in category "Emergency services in the United States" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
Freedom House Ambulance Service was the first civilian emergency medical service in the United States to be staffed by paramedics, all of whom were African-American. One well-known report in the US during that time was Accidental Death and Disability: The Neglected Disease of Modern Society, also known as The White Paper.
Ambulance services in the United States (2 C, 77 P) Pages in category "Emergency medical services in the United States" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
American Medical Response, Inc. (AMR) is a private ambulance company in the United States that provides and manages emergency medical services, non-emergency and managed transportation, rotary and fixed-wing air ambulance services, and disaster response across the United States. [2]
A common measurement in benchmarking the efficacy of emergency services is response time, the amount of time that it takes for emergency responders to arrive at the scene of an incident after the emergency response system was activated. Due to the nature of emergencies, fast response times are often a crucial component of the emergency service ...
According to the Institute of Medicine, from 1993 to 2003, emergency department visits in the United States grew by 26 percent, while in the same period, the number of emergency departments declined by 425. [14] Ambulances frequently get diverted from overcrowded emergency departments to other hospitals that may be farther away. In 2003 ...
Air ambulances in the United States are operated by a variety of hospitals, local government agencies, and for-profit companies. Medical evacuations by air are also performed by the United States Armed Forces (for example in combat areas, training accidents, and United States Coast Guard rescues) and United States National Guard (typically while responding to natural disasters).