SSM Health St. Anthony Emergency Medical Service (EMS)

SSM Health St. Anthony Emergency Medical Service (EMS) originated from the oldest and largest hospital-based ambulance service in Oklahoma, and it provides emergency response to Midwest City, Choctaw, Nicoma Park, Luther, Spencer, Hickory Hills, Harrah, Jones, Newalla, Forest Park and southwest Lincoln County.

If you are experiencing a life-threatening emergency, please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.

Services

SSM Health St. Anthony EMS employs more than 90 medics and operates 14 advanced life support vehicles. It has many services, including:

• 9-1-1 Emergency transport
• Non-emergency transport services
• EMS standby for community events

All ambulances are licensed at the paramedic level, the highest level of pre-hospital emergency medical training available in the state of Oklahoma. EMS personnel employed by SSM Health St. Anthony are state and nationally licensed. All paramedics are required to maintain Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification and undergo field performance evaluations conducted by the EMS medical director.

Equipment

All EMS units respond with cardiac life support capabilities with equipment on each vehicle that allows paramedics to identify and manage a wide variety of medical and traumatic emergencies. In addition to all required ALS equipment, each unit is equipped with an IV infusion pump, pulse oximeter, doppler stethoscope, blood glucometer, transport ventilator, CPAP respiratory devices, and 12 Lead ECG monitor/defibrillator.

SSM Health St. Anthony EMS works in coordination with the Midwest City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to assure rapid and accurate dispatch of EMS units. As a result of that communication, the average response time is within the standards recommended by the American Heart Association and the American College of Surgeons. Here a few situations requiring an ambulance:

• Motor vehicle accidents with injury
• No respiration/pulse
• Heat attack/chest pain or shortness of breath
• Unresponsive/unconscious
• Strokes/seizures
• Traumatic injury involving burns, heavy bleeding, or broken bones
• Childbirth
• Penetrating injuries such as gunshot or knife wounds