About Emory EMS

Emory EMS (EEMS) is a unit of the Special Services Division of the Emory University Police Department. EEMS is a student-run, volunteer, quick response emergency medical service that exists to provide emergency and non-emergency medical care to Emory University students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the surrounding community. Funding is provided by the Emory University Police Department. EEMS works in coordination with DeKalb County Fire and Rescue to provide high-quality, professional, confidential, and expeditious emergency medical care.

Established in 1992, EEMS began as the vision of a few EMTs recognizing the need to assist DeKalb County in providing emergency medical coverage to the Emory campus. EEMS became the first licensed collegiate first responder service in the state of Georgia. In recent years, programs with DeKalb Fire and Rescue Services, Emory University Hospital’s Emergency Department, and Grady Memorial Hospital’s Emergency Care Center and EMS service have enabled unit members to gain valuable medical experience while working with some of the finest paramedics and emergency medicine physicians in the state.

At present, the Unit is comprised of over 40 volunteers, certified as either Georgia Emergency Medical Technician Intermediates (EMT-I) or Paramedics (EMT-P). EEMS is in service 24 hours a day, seven days a week, during the school year. Unit territory includes the Emory University Atlanta Campus, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Yerkes Primate Research Center, the Wesley Woods Center, and surrounding businesses and roads. EEMS operates two quick response vehicles and has an additional operations vehicle. Our average response time is 3 minutes.