EMS in Las Vegas?

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Does anyone know who does 911 out there? Is it Fire/Rescue? Is it medic only? And does anyone know of any *good* medic schools out there? I may have a location change soon.

Thanks,

TJ

[fueltrazi]

All three transport Both Las vegas city department has boxes along with clark county fire dept has boxes out in henderson etc.... AMR has a contract with the city for 911 also so basically when 911 is called both a Fire Dept Box (Rescue) as they call it but it is an ambulance and a AMR ambulance show up depending on the call and who shows up first i think is who transports the pt. According to the people who use to work there Fire throws there weight around when its a trauma call/MVA not to mention they get like 30 dollar stipens every time they transport. The city of las vegas is divided between North Las Vegas and South between two private companys which both are owned by AMR but keep to different brand names. Medic West being the north and AMR las vegas being the south.

Medicwest.com is for north las vegas and i know they offer incentives for hire including moving wages sign on bonus and possibly training u as a CCT-P when u are a EMT-P for them for like a year or two.

AMR.net for las vegas but u are more likely to get hired if u are already working for AMR and apply for an inter divisional transfer.

Along with everything i said they have a very liberal EMS policy/protocol including most things being PTC (Prior to contact) along with some major expanded scope things such as CPAP etc...

The people that used to work there but moved away said it was one of the craziest experinces they ever had which included living in Vegas itself along with the experience u get by just working in that city for a year or two.

Any more questions?

P.S Being an EMT-B pretty much only gets u a security job at a casino...if u want to work the 911 system u have to be a EMT-Intermediate at the minimum which they offer those classes out there also.

The best incentives are for Paramedics though

Edited May 14, 2009 by fueltrazi

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Looks like I'll be getting my medic first then