EMS Week

Thank you to Verizon, the sponsor of EMS1's EMS Week coverage.

In 1974, President Gerald Ford authorized EMS Week to celebrate EMS practitioners and the important work they do in our nation's communities. NAEMT and ACEP will partner to celebrate EMS Week May 21-27, 2023, to celebrate and recognize the important contributions of EMS practitioners in safeguarding the health, safety and wellbeing of their communities.

The 2023 EMS Week theme is "Where Emergency Care Begins."

Thank you for your sacrifices, dedication and service to your communities. Happy EMS Week from EMS1.

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Celebrating EMS Week 2023 – Day 5: Save-A-Life Day

It's on agencies to provide opportunities for community members to learn the skills needed to potentially save the life of a stranger or loved one

Becoming force multipliers

The real role of EMS should be to train ourselves out of a job
EMS is changing ‘where emergency care begins’

Because of EMS, emergency care begins closer to the point of illness or injury than ever before
Asking the big questions

Industry leaders weigh in on celebrating EMS Week amidst the forces shaping the EMS landscape

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Video: Why they ride
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Participants in the National EMS Memorial Bike Ride honor the fallen and support their loved ones
An EMS Week message of gratitude from EMS1, Lexipol
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In honor of EMS Week 2020, Lexipol and EMS1 Editorial Director Greg Friese, MS, NRP, shares our thanks to the frontline EMS providers, EMS supervisors and paramedic chiefs, hospital providers and civilians in their combined efforts to flatten the curve and care for patients during the pandemic.

"Especially during COVID-19, you've gone above and beyond as a frontline EMS provider to don extra PPE to take extra risk to you and your families to make sure the civilians you serve get the important life-saving care that they need," Friese notes.

Thank you for all that you do and happy EMS Week from Lexipol and EMS1.
Faces of EMS #EMSWeek
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Thank you to all EMS providers.
New Castle County paramedics EMS Week
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Are you ready for EMS Week 2017?
EMS Week tribute from Healthcare NOT Fair
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A tribute to EMTs from the satirical video series Healthcare NOT fair for EMS Week 2016.
What it means to be EMS Strong and 'Called to Care'
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911 problems and abuses are no joke to comedian John Oliver
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This video contains explicit language.

'Last Week Tonight' segment confronts the inability of 911 systems to find callers as easily as a pizza delivery app or an Uber driver
EMS WEEK 2015
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NYC REMSCO EMS WEEK 2015 video tribute
Documentary shows trauma, hope of Austin-Travis County EMS
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"Black Cloud" is a documentary film about trauma, hope, and Austin-Travis County EMS. With an unprecedented amount of access, Emmy nominated filmmaker Christopher Kim has crafted a film about the emotional cost of saving lives - from the perspectives of the saviors and the saved. Black Cloud will make its debut at the Sundance Film Festival. Watch the official Black Cloud movie trailer.