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September 02, 2025

Lifesaving EMS in Oldham County in La Grange, KY

Deborah Berry 55 La Grange (1)
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At Oldham County EMS, we are the emergency medical service for Oldham County. We provide twenty four seven, three sixty five coverage to the county for nine one one calls. We have advanced stroke life support that is required for all of our advanced providers. We also attain special pediatric training as well as our neonatal resuscitation for the smallest of our patients.

We operate twenty four seven, three sixty five. All of our trucks are staffed advanced life support, meaning they have a paramedic or an advanced EMT on the ambulances. We are accredited by the commission of ambulance services. There's twenty three thousand EMS services in the United States.

Only one hundred and eighty seven are CAS accredited. We have off-site interviewers come in and perform a two day audit basically of our service because any service can put on paper what they do, but we actually have to prove what we do as far as going above and beyond any nationally recognized agencies to get this accreditation.

Our employees are very proud to wear this uniform. They're proud to be affiliated with Odum County EMS and Baptist Health, and I want everybody in this community to know that we live our mission daily. We strive with our training to be the best of the best, and we will always show up on their worst day, and we will give them the best patient care possible because we have the best that serves this community.

Lifesaving EMS in Oldham County Healthtalk Transcript

Deborah Berry, Director, Oldham County EMS
Baptist Health La Grange

Deborah Berry, director:

At Oldham County EMS, we are the emergency medical service for Oldham County. We provide 24/7, 365 coverage to the county for 911 calls. We have advanced stroke life support that is required for all our advanced providers. We also attain special pediatric training, as well as our neonatal resuscitation for the smallest of our patients. We operate 24/7, 365. All our trucks are staffed with advanced life support, meaning they have a paramedic or advanced EMT on the ambulance.

We are accredited by the Commission of Ambulance Services. There are 23,000 EMS services in the U.S. Only 187 are CAS-accredited. We have off-site interviewers come in and perform a two-day audit of our service. Any service can put on paper what they do, but we actually have to prove what we do as far as going above and beyond any nationally recognized agencies to get this accreditation.

Our employees are very proud to wear this uniform. They're proud to be affiliated with Oldham County EMS and Baptist Health. I want everybody in this community to know that we live our mission daily. We strive with our training to be the best of the best, and we will always show up on their worst day. We will give them the best patient care possible because we have the best who serve this community.

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