Today SEQ remains a leader in prehospital Advanced Life Support. We have ALS vehicles and/or equipment stationed at each of our member agencies, and we remain a unique example of the benefits of teamwork and resource sharing in EMS.
Southeast Quadrant
MOBILE CRITICAL CARE UNIT, INC.
Did you know?
The first ALS training program was held at Rochester General Hospital and lasted 3 months. Today, paramedic training takes nearly 2 years and involves extensive classroom, hospital, and field training sessions.The original radio units used to communicate with hospitals were the size of a small suitcase and weighed over 30 pounds.
Hospital communication today is accomplished with handheld cellphones that weigh only a few ounces.
Prehospital Advanced Life Support first came to the greater
Rochester area in the early 1970's with the creation of the
Mobile Coronary Care Unit Program. This was a project
originated by the Society For Total Emergency Programs
(STEP). As the program's name suggests, the program was
originally conceived with the goal of reducing
out-of-hospital mortality from heart attack by bringing
lifesaving care directly to a patient's side, previously
only available in the hospital emergency department. The
units were later renamed Mobile Critical Care Units as the
scope of care provided expanded beyond cardiac care to
include all facets of emergency care, including both trauma
and medical emergencies.
The volunteer ambulance services in Perinton,
Pittsford, Penfield, and East Rochester were all active
participants in the MCCU program, and in 1974 decided to
pool their resources to form the Southeast Quadrant. SEQ
became operational as a single agency in 1976 to provide
advanced life support to its participating agencies, with
the individual volunteer ambulance services retaining
responsibility for BLS care and transport in their
respective districts.
Today SEQ remains a leader in prehospital Advanced Life Support. We have ALS vehicles and/or equipment stationed at each of our member agencies, and we remain a unique example of the benefits of teamwork and resource sharing in EMS.
Today SEQ remains a leader in prehospital Advanced Life Support. We have ALS vehicles and/or equipment stationed at each of our member agencies, and we remain a unique example of the benefits of teamwork and resource sharing in EMS.