Paramedic Services Week 2025
May 18-24 is National Paramedic Services Week, a time to honour the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) profession and recognize the professionals who provide this vital public service. Paramedic Services Week also offers an opportunity to better understand the important role paramedicine plays within the health care system, and for our communities.
Alberta’s EMS system is comprised of dedicated Emergency Medical Dispatchers, Inter-facility Transportation, community-based First Responders, as well EMS Practitioners in ground and air (rotary and fixed-wing) transport ambulances.
This year's national theme We care. For everyone., is an opportunity to highlight the many ways that paramedic services help people. Alberta's paramedics are there to provide care when and where it is needed - be it on the phone, on the street, in the air, or in homes, Alberta's paramedics respond and provide every patient with the right care.
Join us as we celebrate these heroes and learn more about the incredible service they provide each and every day.
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Share your appreciation
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Alberta Health Services (AHS) Emergency Medical Services (EMS) brings care to people and people to care. Our team is made up of caring and knowledgeable people who give their best to Albertans each and every day.
We invite you to let them know that you care by expressing your thanks to paramedics on the Thank a Paramedic message board.
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Heart of a Future Hero educational tour
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Join ZOLL® and Alberta Health Services EMS for the Heart of a Future Hero educational tour, and learn what it means to be a paramedic! Help us celebrate Canadian Paramedic Services Week and the people who dedicate themselves to improving patient care in their communities.
Click here to download flyer (PDF) for more information.
What:
Heart of a future hero education tour When:
Friday. May 23
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.Where:
AHS EMS Stonegate Station
70-2626 Country Hills Blvd E
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Canadian Paramedicine Research Day
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Paramedics are invited to join a national coalition of researchers and services online for the 4th Annual Canadian Paramedicine Research Day: Bringing Research to Practice.
Registration deadline is May 21, 2025.Date: Thursday, May 22, 2025
Time: 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
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Second Annual Alberta Fallen Paramedic Memorial Service
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The EMS Foundation proudly unveiled the Alberta Fallen Paramedic Memorial in a commemorative ceremony in June 2024. This beautiful monument, situated on the south lawn of the Alberta Legislature grounds, now stands as a permanent memorial to honor fallen Albertan EMS members who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The EMS Foundation will be holding the Second Annual Alberta Fallen Paramedic Memorial service on Saturday, May 24, 2025. This event will honor one new fallen member as well as the nine fallen members already on the monument.
When: Saturday, May 24, 2025 @ 12:00 p.m. (Ceremony will commence at 1:00 p.m.)
Where: Alberta Legislature grounds, 10800 97th Avenue NW, Edmonton, Alberta (South lawn)Dress will be agency-specific Dress Uniform, Duty Uniform, or Business Casual.
For more information, please contact: memorial@emsfoundation.ca.
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The medical response training for Metis Settlements program is a partnership between the Metis Settlements Health Board and AHS. Metis Settlement members have the opportunity to join this program, aimed at reducing medical response times in the 8 Metis settlements. Give back to the community and grow your career.
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A look at 'Camp Courage' — a weeklong day camp that aims to educate and inspire young women interested in careers as first responders. With AHS Emergency Medical Services (EMS), the @calgarypolice and Calgary Fire Services.
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When Albertans call 911, a specially trained dispatcher will take the call, but what many patients may not be aware of is that physicians are available 24/7 to collaborate on calls with AHS EMS paramedics. This service is called Online Medical Consultation (OLMC), and is more informally known as Doctors in Dispatch.
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Patients who are assessed by EMS as low-acuity and do not need an ambulance response are directly transferred to a dedicated 811 line for further assessment and guidance from registered nurses. This is freeing up ambulances for emergency response.
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Many employees who work within EMS are calling rural Alberta home. Some prefer a quieter lifestyle with less commuting, but all are deeply passionate about working in a more tight-knit, family-like atmosphere that is harder to find in urban centres.
Working as an EMS professional in smaller communities allow you to form close bonds with your fellow responders, hospital staff, fire department and other emergency service providers. Everyone knows each other by name, whether they are your colleagues or your patients.
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Welcome to the world, Timothy! One of Swan Hills’ newest residents was delivered thanks to the response and care of Primary Care Paramedics, Trevor Trefanenko and Caitlin Heffel.
Timothy’s mother said if EMS wasn’t available, she would have had to deliver him at home by herself. Trefanenko replied, “That’s what we’re there for. We’re there for Albertans to help them out when they don’t have a ride to get to a hospital.”
May 19 – 25th is Paramedic Services Week, and AHS is proud of our dedicated paramedics who are there for Albertans – newborn and beyond - in need.
