Linking the System’s Resources

Providing a vital link among North Shore-LIJ Health System facilities, the Center for Emergency Medical Services transports patients between hospitals so that in-patients at one hospital can share in the specialties of another. CEMS makes the link for patients needing pain management at Syosset Hospital or an oncology consult at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset’s Don Monti Oncology Center, to obstetric and gynecological emergencies and critical cardiac or pediatric cases needing urgent specialty care at one of our tertiary facilities.

A Variety of Needs at All Points of Hospital Stay

Whether a patient needs emergent transportation for a time-sensitive cardiac catheterization, routine transportation for an MRI, or a discharge transport to a rehabilitation or skilled nursing facility after surgery, the Center for Emergency Medical Services keeps the Health System connected. Our units also work directly with admitting and catheterization lab scheduling departments to bring patients from facilities outside the health system, expanding our reach. Our efficient and close-knit relationship with discharge planners throughout the health system helps reduce patients’ lengths-of-stay.

Medical Control - Always Under a Doctor’s Care

Maintaining the continuum of care, patients remain under a doctor’s care even when they are in the ambulance. Anytime a patient is being transported in one of our ambulances, whether it’s a 911 emergency call from a residence or a transfer between facilities, our paramedics are always in touch by radio and phone with our own state-of-the-art medical control facility. Housed in the emergency department of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, our medical control facility makes use of board-certified emergency room physicians to guide patient care when needed. As patients leave one facility on their way to the next, they are never out of a doctor’s care.