Sierra Vista Hospital Emergency Medical Services is committed to responding to the changing needs of an expanding service area and being a recognized leader in innovative, cost-effective, clinically sophisticated delivery of comprehensive emergency medical services.
Who are we?
- 25 Staff Members Work for the EMS
- 2-person Management Team
- 3-person Community EMS Team
- 20-person Ambulance Staffing Team
What do we do?
- SVH EMS is a patient-oriented 911 EMS Service, providing care for the residents of Sierra County.
Special Skills
- STEMI Protocol
- Heparin
- Clopidogrel
- ACLS/PALS Cardiac Arrest Protocol for AEMTs
- Special medications
- ie Ketamine
Critical Care Team
- Mobile ICU
- Carry and administer over 100 different medications
- Ability to RSI in the field
- Finger thoracotomy, chest tubes, escharotomy, blood product administration, advanced ventilator operations
Community EMS Team
- 4 Core Values
- Patient education
- Access to medications
- Primary care physician
- Transportation
- Fall prevention
- Liaison for social services
Mission:
- The team provides professional, technical extension of SVH medical services to Sierra County and surrounding areas by operating ambulances staffed with 2 licensed EMS personnel 24 hours a day, seven days a week. SVH EMS assists both in the hospital and out in the field.
Where do we go?
- Primary response area of 4,236 sq miles
- Mutual aid areas covering over 5,000 sq miles includes:
- More than 70 miles of Interstate 25
- Remote, mountainous BLM and USFS lands
- Elephant Butte Lake and Caballo Lake State Parks
Services we provide:
- We answer and make runs to more than 3,800 calls per year
- Advanced life support personnel is on every ambulance
- Every unit is ACLS/ PALS/ CPR/ NRP certified
- We conduct more than 850 inter-facility transfers per year and cover more than 156,000 miles per year
- We assist other communities all over the State of New Mexico with complex transfer situations
What else?
- Crisis Intervention Team
- Wildland Fire Response
- Search and Rescue
- Swiftwater Rescue
Education
SVH EMS puts pride in education. Education is key to providing the community with the high-quality care that they deserve! SVH EMS has a cadre of instructors:
- American Heart Association
- BLS, ACLS, PALS
- National Association of EMT
- Pre-hospital Trauma Life Support
- Advanced Medical Life Support
- NMSU-DACC
- EMS Instructor Coordinator
- Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Adjunct Faculty
- Our team also proctors students from DACC that are learning to be EMTs or furthering their careers as paramedics.
Community Involvement:
- Sports games
- Easter egg hunts
- Fiesta Parade
- Elephant Butte Days
- Sierra County Fair
- Community Education
- Memorial Day, 4th of July, and Labor day (when Sierra County’s population increases to over 100,000)
- Career days
- JROTC animals for kids
- Rodeos
- Vaccine clinics
- Food pantry
