New Orleans Emergency Medical Services: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
mNo edit summary |
||
| Line 19: | Line 19: | ||
| medicaldirector = Jullette Saussy, MD |
| medicaldirector = Jullette Saussy, MD |
||
| revenue = |
| revenue = |
||
| yearly responses = |
| yearly responses = 55,000 |
||
| website = [http://www.cityofno.com/pg-126-1-ems.aspx New Orleans EMS] |
| website = [http://www.cityofno.com/pg-126-1-ems.aspx New Orleans EMS] |
||
}} |
}} |
||
Revision as of 15:03, 17 March 2010
 | |
| Established | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | New Orleans, LA |
| Jurisdiction | City |
| Dept. type | Full-time Paid |
| Employees | 116[1] |
| BLS or ALS | ALS |
| Ambulances | 20 |
| Medical director | Jullette Saussy, MD |
| Responses | 55,000 |
| Website | New Orleans EMS |
New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (New Orleans EMS) provides basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) ambulance units throughout the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
History
Emergency medical transportation began in the city of New Orleans with hospital-based horse-drawn ambulances in the early 1900s.[2] Charity Hospital was one of the first hospitals in the nation to provide emergency medical transportation.[2] The current EMS agency began in 1947 as the EMS division within the New Orleans Police Department.[2] The ambulances were staffed with emergency medical technicians beginning in the 1960s, and the first paramedics started in 1979.[2] The EMS division was transferred from the police department to the New Orleans health department on July 1st, 1985.[2] After Hurricane Katrina, the management of New Orleans EMS was changed to the New Orleans Office of Homeland Security and Public Safety.[2] The department still resides within the health department, but the Office of Homeland Security and Public Safety maintains control of the operations.[2]
Administrative Staff
Jullette Saussy, MD- Director
Carl Flores- Acting Deputy Director
Cliff Washington- Director of Operations
Barbara Ireland- Director of Communications
Yolanda Wilson- Director of Planning, Human Resources, and Finance
Jacob Oberman- Director of Training and Special Operations
External links
References
- ^ "March 5, 2009 press release". New Orleans EMS. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
- ^ a b c d e f g "New Orleans EMS history". New Orleans EMS. Retrieved 2010-01-26.
| Topics | |
|---|---|
| Government | |
| Colleges and Universities | |
| Sports |
|
| Festivals | |
 | This New Orleans, Louisiana–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This emergency services–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |