Evangelical Regional Mobile Medical Services Recognized with Pediatric Certificate

Evangelical Regional Mobile Medical Services (ERMMS), the emergency medical response arm of Evangelical Community Hospital, recently received its Pediatric Voluntary Recognition Program certificate from the Pennsylvania EMS for Children Project.

The program is designed to assist EMS agencies in delivering the highest-level of care to the smallest patients.

ERMMS was certified with the Level III Advanced certificate for services provided by the Hospital as its base of response. The certificate recognizes that ERMMS is in compliance with federal EMS-for-children equipment on its responding vehicles, participates in federal EMS reassessment surveys, in compliance with ChildLine background clearances and PATCH criminal record checks for all EMS providers, and that all EMS providers that are part of the organization have completed four hours of pediatric-specific continuing education annually.

The pediatric certificate will be reviewed annually by the Pennsylvania EMS for Children Advisory Committee to ensure ERMMS maintains all standards with regard to pediatric patients.

ERMMS was launched in October 2019 in response to a local, state, and national shortage of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) volunteers. While Evangelical Community had been providing staffing support for ambulance companies from Middleburg to Watsontown with EMTs and Paramedics, ERMMS represents a long-term solution to providing consistent, high quality emergency medical services to the region.