Powell EMS

     Powell Township EMS is a Basic Life Support ambulance service. Our responders are all volunteers. The majority of our volunteers are all trained as Emergency Medical Technicians at the basic skill level (EMT-Basic), and some at more advanced levels (EMT-Specialist and EMT-Paramedic). The EMT-Basic has successfully completed a state approved EMT Course which is typically about 150 hours in length. EMT's are trained in the use of Automatic External Defibrillators (AED's), Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR), oxygen administration, bandaging, splinting, emergency childbirth, non-visualized airways, and the administration of some medications including epinephrine with an Epi-Pen, aspirin, albuterol, and glucose.

     In EMS (Emergency Medical Services), a basic life support group is the team required to identify emergency situations, give first aid, and transport a patient to the nearest hospital, if necessary. The EMT is given the task to give all the preliminary aids to the patient. If after the preliminary aid is given, more advanced medical help is required, an Advanced Life Support (ALS) team will be dispatched to take over care. 

     Upper Peninsula Health System provides ALS assistance for Powell Township. For certain types of calls, an ALS ambulance is automatically dispatched to intercept Powell EMS. An ALS Ambulance can provide advanced medical care that maybe needed including IV's, intubation, and medications beyond the basic life support ambulance services Powell EMS currently provides. In many of those situations, the patient will ride in the Powell Twp. Ambulance from the scene so we can start the transport and get the patient on the way to the hospital as quickly as possible, and the two ambulances will meet up enroute. An EMT-Paramedic will then board the Powell Twp. Ambulance and take over care of the patient with assistance from the EMT's as they continue on their way to the hospital. 

Directions to new Marquette General Hospital Emergency Room: