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Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services (CCEMS) is an emergency medical service provider in North Harris County in Houston, Texas. CCEMS is one of the most reliable EMS services in Houston. All ambulances in use by CCEMS are MICU or Mobile Intensive Care Units, with at least one Paramedic, making all ambulances ALS units. CCEMS has a service area of approximately and has 14 stations plus 3 peak ambulances, a communication center that dispatches both fire and ambulance, and an education center.〔(Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services - CCEMS - Houston, Texas )〕 ==History== In November 1974, a tragic event occurred in which a man died from a heart attack without pre-hospital care. Afterwards, The FM 1960 Community (The stretch of FM 1960 between I-45 and SH 249), took the initiative to form an emergency medical service which came to be known as Cypress Creek EMS, named after the large creek that runs through the area. CCEMS was chartered as a non-profit corporation by the state of Texas on July 25, 1975. http://ccemsnews.com/2015/07/31/celebrating-40-years-of-community-service/ The community desperately raised funds to establish the service and they soon purchased the first ambulance, which arrived on December 14, 1975. At this time, all of the CCEMS staff were volunteers with no reimbursement for their services. To this day, volunteers are a large and integral part of the staff and they range from non-medical drivers to emergency medical technicians to paramedics. The service relied heavily on donations and fund-raisers as it did not receive government funding. Third-Party billing was initiated in 1993 and allowed Cypress Creek EMS to bill insured patients to help with reimbursement. CCEMS is affiliated with Emergency Services District 11 and about 51% of its funding now comes from tax dollars.〔(Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services - CCEMS - Houston, Texas )〕 One of the notable things about CCEMS is its bright red uniform shirts. CCEMS is one of the very few services in the country that wears red. In order to keep an image of professionalism, members wear the uniforms year round as opposed to other services who may permit their members to wear shorts or polo shirts during the summer time. The main fleet today consists of over 17 MICU Type III ambulances, five supervisor vehicles, a utility vehicle and a mobile communications command vehicle. The first responder program allows qualified members to respond to calls in their surrounding area before a medic unit arrives. CCEMS also has a bike team that performs first response at large events such as parades and festivals.〔(Cypress Creek Emergency Medical Services - CCEMS - Houston, Texas )〕 Cypress Creek EMS is not in direct connection with (Cypress Creek Volunteer Fire Department ). They are however affiliates and CCEMS provides EMS services to the CCVFD area. There is a widespread misconception that the two services are one in the same. http://ccemsnews.com/2015/08/05/cypress-creek-confusion/ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cypress Creek EMS」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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