A very visible part of our organization, Campbell County Health Emergency Medical Services' cares for the sick and injured in Northeastern Wyoming (and beyond) through prevention, response, intervention, and transport to a medical facility. Every day, our EMS crews are called upon to help others through one of what may be the most frightening times of their lives.
The EMS department at CCH is a group of professionals who are staffed in Gillette and Wright, Wyoming. In 2024, EMS responded to more than 10,323 dispatches. Last year, our EMS staff helped with 1 childbirth, 78 cardiac arrests, 23 STEMI’s, 104 strokes and 130 traumas. Learn more.
EMS also provides standby services for special events such as sporting events for an hourly fee. Charges are based on the level of service provided such as critical care transport, advanced life support (emergency or non-emergency), or basic life support (emergency or non-emergency), and with mileage. If you are needing coverage for your event, please fill out our form.
EMS University provides an opportunity for emergency medical professionals to learn and discuss relevant patient care and management issues. Register for, or learn more about EMS University.
Safe Kids Campbell County provides our community with free car seat checks by appointment, safety seat events, bike rodeos and much more to help educate our children. Learn more
Emergency Medical Services keeps a list of the Automated External Defibrillators (AED) located in Campbell County, Wyoming. Wyoming law requires all persons or agencies (facilities, businesses or organizations) that acquire an AED to notify their local EMS office, and emergency communications centers. Learn more
The public can be assured that the crews responding on ambulances have passed rigorous training standards to become licensed and complete 100’s of hours of additional training each year to ensure they are providing up-to-date competent emergency medical care.
Becoming an EMT requires completion of a 150-hour long course that includes classroom time, ambulance ride time, clinical time in an emergency department and successful completion of a written test and skills verification. To become a paramedic our staff must first be a licensed EMT for a minimum of one year. Then, they must complete a 1,800-hour long course that includes classroom time, clinical rotations in an emergency department, ICU, cardiac cath lab, surgery unit, and behavior health unit. They also have to successfully pass a written test, skill verifications, and oral cardiology scenarios.
Once staff is licensed, they have to recertify their license every two years, which requires approximately 100 hours of continuing education each year. In additional to taking care of approximately 3,500 patient each year, our staff attend monthly EMS training, regularly train while on duty, attend classes on various topics offered through the hospital, and attend our three-day EMS University each year. All staff is also required to maintain Healthcare Provider level CPR and EMT-Intermediates and Paramedics must maintain certification in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support.
CCH EMS staff consists of:
Learn more about becoming an EMT
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Director of Ambulance Services: Shane Kirsch
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