The BRMC Ambulance Page

The BRMC Ambulance Service is part of the Bedford Regional Medical Center, and is located at 2900 West 16th Street, Bedford, Indiana. We are a 'paramedic service', which means at least one of our trucks is always staffed with a paramedic. We have two trucks staffed 24 hours a day with two-man (excuse me, two-person) crews.

We currently have 21 employees: 13 full-time and 7 part-time. This also breaks down as 8 paramedics, 9 advanced EMTs, 3 basic EMTs, and 1 dispatcher. Our Ambulance Director is Bob Atkins.

OnSpot tire chains.

Ambulance laptops.

See our new ambulance here.

See our new ambulance station here.

Below are our ambulances:

Here are two of our ambulances...Ambulance 2 (foreground) and Ambulance 3. Ambulance 2 was placed into service in August 1999, and Ambulance 3 in April 2001. Both trucks were manufactured by American Emergency Vehicles. Ambulance 2 will become a backup truck with the arrival of the new Ambulance 1.

This is Ambulance 4. It is our backup truck and is used for special events.

Our hospital is now part of the Clarian Health Network, which was a merging of Methodist Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children, and the IU Medical Center, all of Indianapolis. Our hospital was founded in 1970 as the Bedford Medical Center, along with a separate suite of doctors' offices known as the Edgewood Clinic. In 1996 the hospital and clinic became one entity and merged with Methodist Hospital, becoming known as the Bedford Regional Medical Center.


Public Education Section

BRMC is a regional training center. Click here for more information.

"Ambulance driver" - A generic term often used by the public to describe EMTs. If you want to irritate an EMT call them an 'ambulance driver'. This refers back to the old days when an ambulance provided little or no medical care, and just drove an injured patient to the hospital. These days ambulance personnel are highly trained, medical professionals. In Indiana they are divided into 3 classes:

EMT-B, the 'Basic EMT'. They do all the normal stuff. Bandaging, oxygen, etc. They can now use automatic defibrillators and non-visualized airways with the proper medical direction. Requires ~200 hours of class time, ride time, and ER time.

EMT-A, the 'Advanced EMT'. In addition to the skills of the Basic EMT they can start IVs, use non-visualized airways, interpret monitor rhythms, perform glucometry, and manually defibrillate. Requires an additional ~100 hours of class time, ride time, and ER time over the Basic EMT.

EMT-P, the 'Paramedic'. They do all the things people normally think of and see on TV: give drugs, intubate, etc...they do it all. Becoming a paramedic is a serious step. It requires ~1500-2000 hours of class time, and tons of hospital/ER/ride time. Paramedics have a right to be proud of their certification. Some let it go to their head, though, and the basic/advanced EMTs have to give them hell for it. If you are in EMS, I'm sure you know at least one.

Several of BRMC's EMTs are members of the Lawrence County Emergency Response Team (SWAT team).

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