[TrunkCom] Re: EMS in NJ

[TOES1976@aol.com]

Ed,

Thanks you have.  Was visiting down in Glen Rock and brought along the 92b.  
Wanted to make sure I was able to hear everyting.  I suspect that ALS would 
ride along on the bls rig if IVs and drugs are implemented lets say in a 
cardiac case in case something went wrong.  That's the case here in CT.  In 
Lower Naugatuck Valley (Shelton, Derby, Ansonia, Oxford, Seymour area), as 
well as the rest of the state of CT we have 24/7 Volunteer BLS (service level 
2)/EMT 1 (svc lvl 4).  Valley Emergency Medical Services (VEMS) provides 
primary medic service (svc lvl 5) for the four above mentioned towns with AMR 
as a second medic/transport if the vollies are not avaiable e.g. Shelton EMS 
contracts with AMR to provide EMS service for the city Monday-Friday 8am-6pm, 
also after 10pm when no one is avaiable to sleep over.  All towns now get 
dispatched by SC CT CMED which is Corrdianated Medical Emergency Dispatch.  
CMED gets the ems call from 911 and then calls the appropiated contracted 
service or the next avaiable service.  All ambulances and in some regions 
fire MUST sign on with CMED when responding to a call.  All responding units 
can talk to each other on CMED if nescessary.  I think there's 12 regions 
across the state with their own methods such as unit numbering and who must 
sign on.  CMEDs can also dispatch FDs as well if hired to do so by the 
town/city e.g. Derby and Stratford.  SW is run by all the towns in the SW 
portion of Fairfield county.  CMED is also responsible for setting up patches 
to the local hospitals in it region, E.G. SC handles Griffin, Yale, St 
Rapheals, VA hospital and Midstate Hospital, while SW handles Bridgeport, St. 
Vincents, Norwalk, Stamford, and Greenwich hospital.  In short this is our 
setup up here.  Thanks again.


shawn