Emergency Medical Services

Our EMS Services Include:

• BLS – Basic Life Support provides basic pre-hospital care that includes patient stabilization and extrication, first aid and CPR.  Our BLS crews are comprised of two certified Emergency Medical Technician-Basics or EMT-B's in an ambulance.  Our BLS units provide 9-1-1 response to the municipalities of Hammonton and Mullica. 
• ALS – Advanced Life Support provides advanced pre-hospital care that includes advanced airway management, cardiac monitoring, intravenous access and medication administration.  Our ALS units are staffed by certified paramedics.  Our paramedics specialize in advanced detection of heart attack & stroke and will activate our specialized cardiac intervention teams at Mainland campus in Galloway and our specialized neuro intervention team at Atlantic City campus. 
• SCT – Specialty Care Transport provides critical care transport to patients moving interfacility to specialized and definitive care.  Our SCT units are staffed by a Mobile Intensive Care Nurse or MICN and a paramedic.  Using an ambulance, our SCT crews transport patients throughout AtlantiCare and our partnered regional health systems. 
• MAV – Mobility Access Vehicle – Our MAV technicians provide non-emergent transport for patients with mobility needs utilizing our wheelchair lift equipped vehicles 
• Medical Communications – Medcom provides communication and coordination of BLS, ALS, SCT and MAV units for 9-1-1 emergencies.  It is the regional transfer center for inbound patient transfers, critical care transport, and non-emergent transport.  Medcom is staffed with NJ certified Emergency Medical Dispatchers or EMD’s who answer over 70,000 calls per year.   
• Aeromedical – AtlantiCare EMS has partnered with JeffSTAT to provide flight nurses and flight paramedics for JeffStat 4, an EC-145 helicopter stationed at Woodbine, NJ.  JeffSTAT 4 responds to aeromedical scene requests throughout the state of New Jersey and critical care transport of patients with time-critical medical needs.   
• New Jersey EMS Task Force – AtlantiCare EMS is a member of the New Jersey EMS Task Force.  NJEMSTF is comprised of multiple EMS agencies from all over that state.  AtlantiCare EMS operates several large apparatuses for the task force including Mobile Ambulance Bus 12 that can treat and transport up to 20 patients simultaneously. 
• EMS for Large Scale Events – AtlantiCare EMS provides services for large scale events such as the annual beach concert events in Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Event services may include a temporary emergency department detachment onsite at the venue.  The unit is able to treat concert patrons in need of urgent and emergency medical care.  The unit is staffed with EMT’s, paramedics, nurses and an emergency room physician.