Emergency Medical Services
Mission
To assure the safety and health of Kern County residents by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual quality improvement in emergency medical service care.
Emergency Medical Services (EMS) includes the system of services organized to provide rapid response to serious medical emergencies, including immediate medical care and patient transport to definitive care in an appropriate hospital setting. EMS includes:
- Public safety dispatch
- Fire services first response and treatment
- Private ground and air ambulance response, treatment and transport
- Law enforcement agencies
- Hospitals and specialty care centers
- Training institutions and programs for EMS personnel
- Managed care organizations
- Preventative health care
- Citizen and medical advisory groups
Certification
If you are applying for the first time, renewing a certification, needing a replacement, or applying for Kern County accreditation,
all of our applications can be found by clicking the following "click here" button.
ReciprocityÂ
If you are seeking reciprocity for a state outside of CA,
please complete your state agencies reciprocity form and email to:
Stemperd@kerncounty.com
Type (Reciprocity) in the subject line