| Peel Region Paramedics Services |
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| Established | 2000 |
| Headquarters | Peel Region, ON |
| Jurisdiction | Regional municipality |
| Employees | 306 Full Time and 109 Part Time (as of January 9, 2011) Includes Contract and Replacement Workers |
| BLS or ALS | Both ALS and BLS |
| Ambulances | 70 |
| Chief | Peter Dundas, Director of Peel Regional Paramedic Services |
| Responses | 80,000 and increasing |
| Website | Peel Regional Paramedic Services |
Peel Region Paramedics Services (EMS) provides ambulatory and paramedic care for the municipalities within Peel Region, in Ontario, Canada. Paramedics operations are based in Mississauga.
At peak times, 43 ambulances are in service to care for approximately 1.1 million people and cover 1,225 square kilometres. In addition to the 43 frontline ambulances, Peel Regional Paramedic Services has 9 Supervisor First Response Vehicles, 2 Emergency Support Units and 2 Support Services Units. Bariatric Units, for obese patients, have also entered routine service in 2011.
Peel Paramedics are overseen by Sunnybrook Base Hospital [1] and Base Hospital Director Sheldon Cheskes. The Paramedics have routinely been involved in ground breaking patient care studies that have revolutionized Emergency Patient Care in the ROC - Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium. ROC is a clinical trial network focusing on research in the area of pre-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest and severe traumatic injury. [2]
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Paramedics are represented by the sole bargaining unit OPSEU (Local 277), the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. A new executive of OPSEU Local 277 was voted in Fall 2010 for a 2 year term. The Bargaining Unit is represented by:
(This replaced the 2008 executive of ex-President Brenda Wilson Young, VP Andrew Orr and Secretary Sandra Kearsey)
Peel Paramedics routinely encounter off-load delays at area hospitals due to the volume of patients transported, lengthy wait times at local Emergency Rooms and the aging population in the Region of Peel.
Peel Region EMS operates in the following geographical entities within Peel Region:
List of EMS stations:
Future Stations (estimated by 2017):
| North: County of Simcoe Paramedic Services | ||
| West: - Halton Region EMS | Peel Region Paramedics Service | East: Toronto EMS |
| South: |