York Region EMS

York Region Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Established	2000
Headquarters	Newmarket, Ontario (York Region)
Jurisdiction	Regional Municipality of York
Employees	310
BLS or ALS	Both ALS and BLS
Ambulances	37 and 27 other support vehicles
Chief	Norm Barrette
Website	York Region EMS

York Region Emergency Medical Services (EMS) provides ambulance services and paramedic care for the municipalities within York Region. Before 2000, ambulance services were provided by 2 private operators (Beaverton & District Ambulance and Uxbridge - Stouffville Ambulance), York County Hospital, Nobleton Volunteer Ambulance and Ontario's Ministry of Health. The patchwork of service also had York Region dispatched by 3 different Ministry of Health Communication Centres (Aurora and north by Georgian CACC, Stouffville and Markham by Oshawa CACC and the remainder by Mississauga CACC). Georgian CACC now dispatches the whole region on the Ontario Government leased Bell Mobility Fleetnet VHF trunked radio system. There are 310 paramedics serving the region. EMS Operations are based in Newmarket, Ontario.

Operations

York Region EMS operates emergency ambulances and Paramedic response units in the 9 geographical entities of the Regional Municipality of York.

Central East

Town of Markham

• Markham - Riviera - 10 Riviera Drive
• Markham - Church - 280 Church Street
• Unionville - 316 Main Street, Unionville, Ontario

Town of Whitchurch-Stouffville

• Stouffville - 6392 Main Street (York Regional Road 14)
• Ballantrae - 15400 Highway 48, Ballantrae, Ontario

Richmond Hill

• Richmond Hill - 171 Major MacKenzie Drive West (York Regional Road 25)

South West

City of Vaughan

• Concord - 835 Clark Avenue West, Concord, Ontario
• Woodbridge - 9601 Islington Avenue (York Regional Road 17), Woodbridge, Ontario
• Racco Pkwy - 111 Racco Parkway, Vaughan, ON
• Maple - 9290 Keele Street (York Regional Road 72), Maple, Ontario

Township of King

• Nobleton - 1 Old King Road, Nobleton, Ontario
• King City- 12825 Keele Street (York Regional Road 72), King City, Ontario

North

Town of Aurora

• Aurora - 220 Edward Street

Town of Newmarket

• Cane Parkway - 520 Cane Parkway

East Gwillimbury

• Mount Albert - 22 Princess Street, Mount Albert, Ontario
• Queensville - 1590 Queensville Sideroad (York Regional Road 77), Queensvile, Ontario

Town of Georgina

• Keswick - 165 The Queensway Street West, Keswick, Ontario
• Pefferlaw - 319 Pefferlaw Road (York Regional Road 21), Pefferlaw, Ontario
• Sutton - 21001 Dalton Road, Sutton, Ontario

Administrative and Operations Command are operated primarily out of the Cane Parkway Operations Centre. Operations were previously conducted out of the Regional Municipality of York Administrative Centre. When construction of the new 65 000 sq ft. headquarters and operations centre on Bales Drive in East Gwillimbury is completed operations will be moved there. (2011)

Fleet

• 37 Ambulances - Type III ambulance - Crestline or Demers Mystere ( 30XX, 31XX, 32XX)
• 12 Paramedic and Supervisor Response Vehicles (33XX)
  • Ford Expedition

• 3 Supply Vehicles
• 4 Administrative Vehicles (Supervisor) - unnumbered
  • Chevrolet Malibu - Deputy Chief / Chief

• 2 Education and Training Vehicles
• 1 Emergency Support Unit Trailer
• 1 Rehab and Decon Trailer
• 1 Emergency Support Unit Cargo Truck
• 2 Special Response Units (Individual Paramedic, Pick-up chassis vehicle) - (33XX)
• 5 EMS Mountain Bikes
• 1 Off-road Gator Ambulance

Services

• Primary Care Paramedics
• Advanced Care Paramedics
• Special Response Unit Medics - Tactical, CBRN, Incident Command, Bariatric Patient Transport
• Special Operations - Marine Unit, Bike Unit, Special Event Paramedic Standbys
• Heart Alive - Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) program
• Community Programs - Public education and safety promotion
• Research and Clinical Programs - Clinical initiatives (STEMI, Renal Dialaysis and Stroke bypass) and Research/Clinical Trials
• Education and Training - Paramedic recruitment, in-house training, Advanced Care Paramedic training

See also

• York Regional Police
• Peel Regional Paramedic Services
• Toronto EMS
• Toronto Police Service
• Toronto Fire Services
• Fire Services in York Region
• List of EMS Services in Ontario

External links

• EMS Operations

	North: County of Simcoe Paramedic Services
West: Peel Regional Paramedic Services	York Region EMS	East: Durham Region EMS
	South:Toronto EMS