LVHN Ems

West end community ambulance association (wecaa) has operated as a non-profit organization in monroe county since 1955, providing both advanced life support and basic life support. As of january 1, 2022, west end community ambulance merged with american patient transport systems, inc., and medevac critical care ground to create Lehigh Valley Health Network Emergency Medical Services (LVHN Ems). This merger developed an Ems business subsidiary of Lehigh Valley Health Network and continues to fall under the non-profit status of the west end community ambulance.lehigh Valley Health Network Ems has now a pre-hospital branch broken into two locations we refer to as west end operations (west end community ambulance association) which has been designated as the primary Emergency Medical Services agency in the following townships: chestnuthill, polk, eldred, and tunkhannock, with a total of 34,676 residents. Our west end operations provide Services to hamilton, and ross townships, with a total of 15,023 residents. West end covers 154 square miles on a primary and first due basis. Since the opening of our third substation in february 2018, west end provides mutual aid Services to stroud township, stroudsburg borough, east stroudsburg borough and at times middle smithfield township, lehman, and pike county. The west end call volume for 2022 was over 4,300 calls for Emergency Medical Services and patient movement. The other pre-hospital location is the hazleton operations (american patient transport systems) which is the primary ambulance service for the city of hazleton and hazle township in luzerne county as well as beaver meadows in carbon county. Our hazleton operations are also the primary als provider for mcadoo, rush twp, ryan twp, and sheppton/oneida in schuylkill county, weatherly borough and packer township in carbon county, and west hazleton borough in luzerne county. The hazleton operations serve lower luzerne county and portions of carbon and schuylkill counties encompassing a 100-mile radius of coverage area as primary and first due basis for over 100,000 residents annually. In 2022 the hazleton operations responded to over 12,000 calls for Emergency Medical Services and patient movement.our medevac critical care ground transport service handles all critical care patient movement throughout the Lehigh Valley Health Network and to outside healthcare organizations as requested. In addition to the 24/7 Emergency Medical Services LVHN Ems provides through our pre-hospital locations, LVHN Ems also supports our area Ems partners and all lvh campuses with transports of both critically ill patients to a higher level of care, and discharged home patients with all areas of the Ems business. LVHN Ems west end operations has served as the primary event Medical team for the west end fair for over twenty-five years. In 2022, an estimated 100,000 plus people attended the 100th anniversary of the west end fair. LVHN Ems west end operations employs 22 fulltime advanced and basic life support providers and 8 per diem providers; the hazleton operations employs 37 fulltime and 11 per diem advanced and basic life support providers, 4 full time dispatchers and 1 per diem office personnel; the medevac critical care ground service employs 32 full and part time als level personnel. Our pre-hospital fleet is comprised of sixteen ambulances and three Ems squads that are utilized at our four stations. We recently just finished Ems licensure of our entire business in 2022. We took delivery of a new ambulance and two of the squads this past year which will enhance our response to 911 calls and by adding additional paramedic Services. In addition, we also offer our primary townships the following Services: - provide cpr and first aid training for all our communities and their staff.- provide re-certification to current cpr holders.- provide an additional first aid and bleeding control course for our communities road crews and staff.- partnered with the eastern pa Ems council in hands only cpr and stop the bleed training programs at all school districts in monroe, carbon, schuylkill, northampton, Lehigh and luzerne counties. - provide preventive maintenance checks and change the smoke alarm batteries and provide service and replacement pads for aed's.- LVHN Ems west end operations provides als/bls standby Services for the pleasant Valley area school district for football, cross country, and community events including 5k's, and small fairs within the west end coverage area.- LVHN Ems hazleton operations provides als/bls standby Services for the hazleton area school district athletic events, community events and education to elementary schools as requested.