MCEMS serves over 2,200 students, visitors, faculty, and staff at Muhlenberg College located in Allentown, PA. We serve as a Quick Response Service, and answer about 350 calls for medical assistance annually. We also provide stand-by services for major campus events such as Homecoming, Family Weekend, Music concerts and Commencement. MCEMS also sponsors CPR and AED classes that are open to the Muhlenberg community. We work along with Student Health Services, Campus Safety, and Allentown EMS.
We are dispatched via the Department of Campus Safety via a tone/voice paging system. Our vehicle responds to the scene along with a Campus Safety officer. Currently, our response times average 2-3 minutes.
After an inital assement and stabilization, the crew consults with an on-call member of the Health Center. Our patients are typically transported to the Health Center, Lehigh Valley Hospitals (Cedar Crest & 17th Street Sites) and Sacred Heart Hospital. If the patient requires ALS or ambulance transportation, the Campus Safety dispatcher activates Allentown EMS via the Allentown Comm Center.