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A rail ambulance is a vehicle used for medical transportation services on railway lines. [1] The first rail ambulance was set up in 1920, in order to enable injured people to be transported to the nearest hospital, was set up in the coal mining community of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The car ran between #3 and #7 mines and Town of Sydney Mines.
At present, all ground ambulance and air ambulance service in Nova Scotia is contracted by EHS to Emergency Medical Care (EMC), a subsidiary of Medavie Health Services. The contract is delivered by EMC through 150 ground ambulances and their support facilities, one helicopter, one fixed-wing aircraft, and approximately 900 paramedics.
In some areas, private companies may provide only the patient transport elements of ambulance care (i.e. non-urgent), but in some places, they are contracted to provide emergency care, or to form a 'second tier' response, where they only respond to emergencies when all of the full-time emergency ambulance crews are busy.
An ambulance bus in York Region, Canada. An ambulance bus is a type of ambulance with the capacity to transport and treat multiple patients.An ambulance bus is used primarily for medical evacuation of mass casualty incidents [1] [2] and non-emergency medical transport of care-dependent patients, [3] and can also be used for specific problems such as drunk patients in town centres.
Urgences-santé as a corporation was formally created in 1989 under section 149.1 of the Loi sur les services de santé et les services sociaux and granted jurisdiction as a public health agency on the islands of Montréal and Laval, [2] where it is responsible for the planning, organization, coordination and evaluation of emergency medical services; the operation of an ambulance service, a ...
Patient transport vehicle in New Zealand. Patient transport is a service that transfers patients to and from medical facilities in non-emergency situations. In emergency situations, patients are transported by the emergency medical services. Non-emergency patient transport is sometimes run by the same agency.
[5] [6] As of 2024, the BCAS employs 5040 part-time and full-time paramedics and dispatchers. Dispatch centres are located in Kamloops, Vancouver, and Victoria. [7] The Emergency Medical Assistants Licensing Board is an independent regulatory body responsible for licensing paramedics. [8]
The California Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA or EMS Authority) is an agency of California State government. The California EMS Authority is one of the thirteen departments within the California Health and Human Services Agency. The director is required to be a physician with substantial experience in emergency medicine.