Metropolitan Emergency Medical Services (MEMS) is a Little Rock-basedEmergency Medical Services (EMS) provider for much of central Arkansas. MEMS is dedicated to providing the very best pre-hospital emergency and non-emergency medical care. To help ensure this, MEMS maintains partnered healthcare relationships with all hospitals in the central Arkansas area, making MEMS a key figure in serving a total residential population of approx. 500,000, as well as serving a vital role in healthcare throughout the region.Because they strive to treat every person as if one of their own family members were in need, MEMS has established a pattern and reputation of exceeding nationally accepted standards andregulations for quality and service. MEMS is certified by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services (CAAS), signifying that MEMS has met the "gold standard" requirements as an emergency medical services provider.
Their teams of emergency professionals are not only dedicated to their job, but also to continuing education, certification and quality care. Extensive training and continuing education is required for all of MEMS medical personnel.
MEMS Special Operations Teams deploy in response to emergency situations that are unconventional in nature. Types of emergencies include, but are not limited to; hazardous materials (HAZMAT), search and rescue (SAR), swift water rescue (WRT), large scale special events and natural disasters. These emergencies are unconventional because they typically require specialized skill sets that exceed the capabilities of most traditional ALS or BLS rescue services.
They all provide MEMS and the communities that MEMS serves with the most efficient and effective methods necessary to provide care to those in need. More importantly, the Special Operations Division allows MEMS to effectively respond to a wide range of unique emergency situations without compromising MEMS’ ability to respond to the hundreds of more conventional 911 emergency calls that the MEMS communications division receives daily.