Scott and White Emergency Medical Services (SWEMS)

See Schedule OScott & White EMS, Inc. (EMS) is a faith-based, 15 ambulance fleet, health care transportation organization principally serving the Bell County area of central Texas. EMS is affiliated with Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), a faith-based nationally acclaimed network of acute care hospitals and related health care entities providing quality patient care, medical education, medical research and other community services to the residents of North and Central Texas. As the largest not-for-profit health care system in Texas and one of the largest in the United States, BSWH was born from the 2013 combination of Baylor Health Care System and Scott & White Healthcare. Today, BSWH has over 1,250 patient access points including 51 hospitals, 612 specialty care clinics, 261 outpatient clinics, 160 primary care clinics, 30 pharmacies, 31 ambulatory surgery centers, and more than 7,100 active physicians. The system also includes a state certified health maintenance organization, the Scott and White Health Plan and the Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance accountable care organization both covering over 1,200,000 lives. EMS provides non-emergent medical transportation services to patients requiring Basic Life Services, Advanced Life Services or Specialty Care Services that include PICU/NICU patients. Non-emergent transportation services are provided only for patients for whom the enhanced level of care and services EMS provides is medically necessary. Additionally, EMS provides emergency response to BSWH facilities.EMS ground had 5,570 ambulance transports, 954 pediatric transports, and 3,069 wheelchair transports for a total of 9,593 transports for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023. The EMS fleet includes 11 ambulances all certified with the State of Texas as mobile intensive care unit capable, four Pediatric ambulances certified with the State of Texas as specialty transport capable, and three wheelchair vans to assist wheelchair bound and ambulatory patients. EMS participates in local and state disaster response activities in association with area fire and police departments, the U.S. Army at Fort Hood, TX and the Federal Emergency Management Administration.