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Emergency Health Services (also EHS) is a division of the Department of Health in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Motto: Munit Haec et Altera Vincit(Latin) One defends and the other conquers Capital Halifax Largest city Halifax Regional Municipality Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Mayann E. Francis - Premier Rodney MacDonald (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 11 - Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area...
It is responsible for the province's pre-hospital emergency health services, including 152 ground ambulances and their support facilities, two helicopters and a fixed-wing aircraft, and approximately 900 paramedics. Ambulance An ambulance is a vehicle designated for the transport of sick or injured people. ...
A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more large horizontal rotors (propellers). ...
Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English. ...
A Paramedic is a specialized health care professional who responds to medical and trauma emergencies in the pre-hospital (out-of-hospital) environment for the purpose of stabilizing and transporting the patient to an appropriate medical facility, usually by ambulance. ...
Many ground ambulance support facilities are co-located with municipal fire stations in smaller rural communities, while having customized paramedic stations in larger centres. Every hospital in the province and many community health centres have helipads for EHS air ambulance service.
EHS operates a central communictions dispatch centre in Burnside Business Park in Dartmouth for coordinating emergency medical services across the province. Burnside Business Park, also known as Burnside Industrial Park or simply Burnside Park, is located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. ...
Ferry running between Halifax and Dartmouth, docked at Dartmouth Ferry Terminal. ...
History Until 1995 Nova Scotia relied on approximately 50 private and public ambulance operators to provide emergency medical care. This resulted in inconsistencies in terms of medical care, levels of staff qualifications, and the type and condition of ambulances; some areas of the province had better service than others.. Most medical air transportation was provided by the Canadian Forces. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Canadian Forces (French: Forces canadiennes), abbreviated as CF (French: FC), are the combined armed forces of Canada. ...
In 1994, a transformation of the system began with the provincial government taking over all ambulance operators and consolidating them into a single entity called Emergency Health Services. The operation of EHS is contracted to Medavie Blue Cross and it has since developed into a recognized world leader in pre-hospital care. Medavie Blue Cross (French: Croix Bleu Medavie) is a non-profit Canadian medical care insurance company headquartered in Moncton, New Brunswick. ...
Provincial Programs
LifeFlight LifeFlight is the name of the air ambulance service operated by EHS in Nova Scotia and the adjacent province of Prince Edward Island. It also services South Eastern New Brunswick Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti (Latin: The Small Protected By The Great) Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Barbara Oliver Hagerman - Premier Pat Binns (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 4 - Senate seats 4 Confederation July 1, 1873 (7th) Area Ranked 13th - Total 5...
LifeFlight is a 24-hour/day air medical transport service for emergency, neonatal, and hospital transfer transport. Most of the missions are for hospital to hospital transfer where the patient requires advanced medicial treatment at another facility, usually at the Queen Elizabeth Health Sciences Center in Halifax, or to hospitals outside Nova Scotia. A physician visiting the sick in a hospital. ...
Motto: Template:Unhide = E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) Logo: Location City Information Established: April 1, 1996 Area: (former city) 79. ...
To date, there are 82 helicopter approved landing zones in Nova Scotia that are Transport Canada certified. Most of the time, in the case of a motor vehicle accident, the highway itself is used for landing and take-off. Transport Canada is the department within the government of Canada which is responsible for developing regulations, policies and services of transportation in Canada. ...
LifeFlight uses the Sikorsky S-76-A as its primary mode of transport and a King Air 200 as its secondary mode of transport. The Sikorsky S-76 was designed, from the wheels up as a commercial helicopter. ...
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LifeFlight contractually provides air ambulance service for the province of Prince Edward Island, in assistance to that province's Island EMS (also operated by Medavie Blue Cross). Service is also provided to New Brunswick when requested. Motto: Parva Sub Ingenti (Latin: The Small Protected By The Great) Capital Charlottetown Largest city Charlottetown Official languages English Government - Lieutenant-Governor Barbara Oliver Hagerman - Premier Pat Binns (PC) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 4 - Senate seats 4 Confederation July 1, 1873 (7th) Area Ranked 13th - Total 5...
Motto: Spem reduxit (Hope restored) Capital Fredericton Largest city Saint John Official languages English, French (the only constitutionally bilingual province in the country) Government - Lieutenant-Governor Herménégilde Chiasson - Premier Shawn Graham (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 10 - Senate seats 10 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st...
Atlantic Health Training and Simulation Centre The Atlantic Health Training and Simulation Centre is a training facility for emergency medical services personnel such as paramedics.
Medical First Response Program The medical first response program is a volunteer mostly rural program to train people to give first aid and give relevant medical information to paramedics before they arrive. The people trained are referred to as Medical First Responders (MFR)'s. Sign in a rural area in Dalarna, Sweden Qichun, a rural town in Hubei province, China An artists rendering of an aerial view of the Maryland countryside: Jane Frank (Jane Schenthal Frank, 1918-1986), Aerial Series: Ploughed Fields, Maryland, 1974, acrylic and mixed materials on apertured double canvas, 52...
Nova Scotia Trauma Program The Trauma program is to facilitate optimal trauma care by providing education, research leadership in injury prevention and control and trauma system development.
EHS facts The International Union of Operating Engineers is a labor union within the AFL-CIO representing primarily construction workers who work as heavy equipment operators, mechanics, and surveyors and stationary engineers, who maintain heating and other systems in buildings and industrial complexes, in the United States and Canada. ...
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers or CUPW (pronounced Cup W) is a public sector trade union representing postal workers employed at Canada Post. ...
May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (134th in leap years). ...
1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ...
December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
See also
Ornge (Ontario Air Ambulance) is the air ambulance service for the province of Ontario and for Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care (Ontario). ...
External links - Website
- Medical First Responers Website
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