The Stamford Emergency Medical Services Inc.
The Stamford Emergency Medical Services Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Stamford Emergency Services (SEMS) is a paramedic service accredited by the Commission on the Accredidation of Ambulance Services (CAAS), with the responsibility for providing pre-hospital emergency care and transport to the citizens and guests of Stamford, Connecticut.
About
SEMS' goal is to provide consistent, compassionate, high quality, pre-hospital paramedic service to the citizens and visitors of Stamford. We also provide paramedic intercept service to the neighboring town of Darien. In the last year SEMS responded to the 14,055 calls for help including 503 responses to Darien. 6,317 of those calls required our highly trained paramedics to perform advanced life support (ALS) interventions. SEMS responded to over 93% of all calls within the American Heart Association recommended target of 8 minutes and SEMS has an average response time of 5.9 minutes to ALS calls.
Interesting data from their 2019 990 filing
The filing outlines the non-profit's goal as “The basic beliefs and philosophies of the corporation are to provide the residents of the city of stamford with high quaility professional emergency medical services, including advanced life support services and to promote awareness of the services available to them to treat each patient, coworker and volunteer in a professional, courteous and compassionate manner. to render treatment to all patients as prescribed and directed by the medical control authority and the state of connecticut office of emergency medical services. to never deny any person treatment because of their inability to pay for services rendered. to promote volunteering as an important source of community contact and service. to provide interested volunteers a place of training and development for entering the ems profession. to operate its business in accordance with the bylaws of the corporation and any governing laws of the state of connecticut, department of public health, office of emergency medical services.”.
When explaining its purpose, the activities were outlined as: “Stamford emergency services (sems) is a paramedic service accredited by the commission on the accredidation of ambulance services (caas), with the responsibility for providing pre-hospital emergency care and transport to the citizens and guests of stamford, connecticut.”.
- As per legal reporting requirements, the state of operation for the non-profit is CT.
- The non-profit's address for 2019 is listed as 684 LONG RIDGE RD, STAMFORD, CT, 06902 in the filing.
- As per the non-profit's form, they have 88 employees as of 2019.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$152,983.
- The organization has 21 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1992.
- The organization pays $5,604,310 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $115,343 in fundraising expenses.