LOWELL, MA PrideStar EMS and Trinity EMS, both headquartered in Lowell, are pleased to announce they have entered into an agreement to create one emergency medical service company rooted in the Merrimack Valley and Southern New Hampshire.
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Sheree Gates receives the 2020 UT Health East Texas Telecommunicator of the Year award from Ivan Leon, UT Health East Texas EMS/ AIR 1 Communications Manager. Scott Berkley
In honor of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week April 12 through 17, UT Health East Texas EMS is recognizing the pivotal role its emergency dispatchers play every day.
Working from UT Health East Texas EMS headquarters in Tyler, a team of 27 dispatchers is responsible for answering emergency calls for EMS services within Smith, Cherokee, Camp, Rusk, Henderson, Wood and Upshur counties. On average, the UT Health East Texas EMS Communications Center handles more than 80,000 calls a year.
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Hall Ambulance will join with other public safety and EMS organizations across the United States to celebrate the vital contributions emergency dispatchers have in answering the call for someone in need.
National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week honors those #headsetheroes who have the difficult job of answering 9-1-1 calls, determining required resources, dispatching those resources, and providing guidance, comfort, and support to the caller until help arrives.
Hall Ambulance’s dispatch center, known as Operations Control Division (OCD), is responsible for processing every request for medical aid in Kern County, California, initially received through the 9-1-1 system. Last year, OCD processed 123,473 calls from people requesting an ambulance. Of those, Hall Ambulance Dispatchers EMD d 11,494 calls using a standardized questioning format that all 9-1-1 and secondary communications centers use to determine what resources need to respond. The dispatchers also
Neighbors: Dispatchers like Roodhouse s Rushton a calming link in the face of emergencies
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Sarah Rushton at work in the West Central Joint Dispatch Center.David Blanchette | Journal-Courier
It may be one of the most difficult phone calls anyone ever has to make, and people like Sarah Rushton are always there to answer.
Rushton is one of 14 telecommunicators who work for the West Central Joint Dispatch Center, which handles all 911 calls for Morgan, Greene and Calhoun counties. They also handle radio traffic for law enforcement, fire and emergency services agencies in the counties, and serve as backup for first responder communications in Brown and Macoupin counties.