ALS means Advanced Life Support. An ALS ambulance is staffed and equipped to monitor the patient’s condition, recognize changes and provide advanced medical intervention when necessary to support life. An ALS ambulance is typically staffed by an EMT and an EMT-Paramedic.
The federal government has laws and regulations in place that are designed to protect your privacy (you will hear them referred to as the HIPAA laws.) These laws require us to be very careful about the medical information (called Protected Health Information or PHI) we share, and they consider the information about your ambulance trip [...]