In Nova Scotia, EHS provides emergency response via ground ambulance and our Life Flight helicopter and fixed-wing aircraft. Paramedic crews are dispatched through our communications centre in Burnside.

For more information, please call the EHS billing office at 902-832-8337 or toll-free at 1-888-280-8884. Download Ambulance Fee Assistance Program Form in PDF format. Download Ambulance Fee Assistance Income Limits in PDF format.

The EHS Ground Ambulance ensures an efficient and effective response to ambulance calls by highly trained paramedics using resources including Patient Transport Units, Ground Ambulances, All-Terrain Vehicles, Disaster Response, and a Medical Command Center (MCC).

The EHS Nova Scotia Volunteer Map shows Nova Scotians where they can find AEDs (automatic external defibrillators). This interactive map shows both public AEDs and AEDs for medical first responders (MFR).

EHS clinical policies, procedures, protocols and guidelines, guide and enable strong paramedic practice with safe, evidence-based, quality patient care. The Office of the Provincial Medical Director is responsible for the development and review of all EHS clinical policies/documents.

Paramedicine is now a self-regulated profession in Nova Scotia. For registration information and requirements, please contact the Nova Scotia College of Paramedics at www.cpns.ca or via phone to (902) 476-8797.

Nov 25, 2020 · The province has purchased vans for the Emergency Health Services (EHS) system to provide non-clinical transportation for Nova Scotians requiring transfer between health-care facilities. The vehicles are part of a one-year pilot …

Aug 4, 2023 · A new EHS (Emergency Health Services) LifeFlight airplane will soon transport non-critical care patients from Yarmouth and Sydney to Halifax for tests and treatment. The new service will free up ambulances and paramedics for local emergency calls – reducing wait times – and save patients hours of travel by road.

Jan 5, 2024 · Nova Scotia will train up to 200 emergency medical responders – a new role that will help improve emergency care in the province – over the next two years. These healthcare professionals will keep more ambulances available, reducing wait times, and allow paramedics more time to focus on emergency calls.

Oct 28, 2022 · Emergency Health Services (EHS) is adding more resources to its medical communications centre to manage non-life-threatening calls so paramedics can focus on emergencies. Starting in November, a registered nurse will join the clinical support paramedic and physician at the centre to give medical advice and treatment options to callers.