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Emergency Medical Services 

Dedicated to Consistent Quality Care 
Across the State of Wisconsin

 OUR MISSION

The mission of the Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services Unit is to ensure that the highest quality and standards of pre-hospital emergency medical care is available to all citizens of and visitors to Wisconsin.

OUR VISION

Through leadership, support, and regulation, the EMS Unit ensures the development and maintenance of a high quality Emergency Medical Services delivery system for the State of Wisconsin. Its primary focus is to reduce both human suffering and economic loss from premature death and disability resulting from sudden illness or injury.

Note: In order to more quickly communicate with all EMS Providers, Service Directors and Medical Directors our office intends to use the email address entered in E-Licensing. Please make sure the email address entered in your E-Licensing account is current and that you are able to access it regularly.

Hot Topics

  • new The First Responder Training and Equipment Grants have been approved.  Email notification will be going out the week of 6/14/2012.  Please contact our office if your Service Director has not been notified by this date.

  • The Association of Professionals in Infection Control has just issued an Infection Prevention Guide for EMS (exit DHS). Please visit this link and see if you can use this valuable resource.

  • For those Interfacility Paramedic Services doing "Just in Time" training for transport medications at time of pick-up, the Training Report (PDF, 80 KB) used to document the training is now available.

  • The Wisconsin Trauma and EMS Programs are pleased to share the new 2012 Wisconsin Trauma Field Triage Guidelines (PDF, 435 KB) based on the 2011 Guidelines for Field Triage of Injured Patients from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and approved by the State Trauma Advisory Council (STAC) and the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Board.

The Department of Health Services (DHS) is requesting all emergency medical service providers (air and ground transport) to replace the 2006 guidelines in your operational plan with the new 2012 Wisconsin Trauma Field Triage Guidelines. Please share this announcement (PDF, 40 KB) with all interested parties.

  • Verification of Licensure  (exit DHS): This link will take you to a public look-up within the Wisconsin E-Licensing system. Reporting is consistent with JCAHO and NCQA standards for primary source verification.

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Last Revised: June 13, 2013