Bryn Mawr College
Emergency Medical Services

Bryn Mawr College Emergency Medical Services (BMCEMS) was formally founded in the fall of 2016. Beforehand, a Bi-College Emergency Medical Services (EMS) club run by Lauren Sauers BMC'17 had existed since the spring of 2014. All in all, the program as it is today was an extensive two- year long process driven by Lauren Sauers and Sarah Awad BMC'17 that consisted of many long nights writing detailed proposals, standard operating guidelines, protocols, and budgets. Two years, a thousand meetings, and four logos later, BMCEMS hit the ground running in January 2017 with 10 total EMTs, 8 of which were newly certified underclassmen at Bryn Mawr and Haverford College.

The program received a generous amount of start-up funds from Bryn Mawr's former Dean of the College, Jennifer Walters, which allowed the program to purchase important equipment and uniforms for members. The program was also made possible by the incredibly generous assistance of Narberth Ambulance, the local 911 ambulance provider

where our members currently volunteer and receive training. A joint-venture between the College and Narberth Ambulance was established in which all BMCEMS members are volunteer members of Narberth Ambulance. As members of Narberth, BMCEMS members undergo full BLS training at Narberth in addition to our training on the college campus. While the training for the BMCEMS program may be more rigorous than most collegiate EMS programs, we take pride in knowing that all of our EMTs are trained and held to the highest standards of emergency medical care.

This unique partnership with Narberth Ambulance is more than ideal and we are truly thankful for the opportunity to have our on-campus providers experience EMS with a prestigious 911 ambulance provider. Very few collegiate EMS programs have this opportunity available to their providers and we are extremely fortunate to have such an incredible resource available to us at Bryn Mawr College.