CCEMS Honored with Highest Cardiac Care Award
Cypress Creek EMS is honored to, once again, be recognized with the American Heart Association’s highest recognition for excellence in pre-hospital heart attack care.
CCEMS Wins Stroke Care Award
For the fourth year in a row Cypress Creek EMS has won the Khurana EMS Stroke Award for the fastest door to tPA time. Medic 58 had the fastest performance in 2017 with a time of 22 minutes. Oh, and it was during Hurricane Harvey…
CCEMS Comm Center Manager Recognized by Harris County
An official from the Harris County Office of Emergency Management recognized the work of Niky Smith during Harvey. Francisco Sanchez said that a few names rose to the top for going above and beyond. One of those was Niky Smith.
CCEMS Car Seat Inspectors Strive to Save Lives
in 2017, Cypress Creek’s four nationally certified car seat inspectors along with Klein Fire Department inspector Brittney Hoover inspected 202 car seats. The inspections are done by appointment every Wednesday at the Charles R. Hooks Education Center….
CCEMS/ESD 48 Blood Program Featured in National Publication
The February Issue of the Journal of Emergency Medical Services or JEMS features a detailed article on the Cypress Creek EMS/Harris County ESD 48 Fire Department Whole Blood Field Transfusion program. It is the only program of its type in the entire country.
Comm Center has Record-Breaking Year for Ambulance and Fire Calls
2017 was a record-breaking year for Cypress Creek EMS and the CCEMS Communications Center. Cypress Creek EMS set a new record for ambulance calls of 44,202 and December saw the highest volume in the history with CCEMS ambulance crews going to 4,017 emergency calls…
Comm Center Named Best in State
The Cypress Creek Communications Center was named Telecommunicator of the Year at the 2017 Texas EMS Conference in Fort Worth. The Award was based on the incredible work of CCEMS call takers, dispatchers, and communications supervisors when Hurricane Harvey flooded hundred of homes and businesses….
CCEMS Trains New IPMBA Instructors
The people who will train the next generation or bike officers and bike medics learned how to do that this week (November 13-17) at Cypress Creek EMS. The 34 students came from all over the country and there was even an officer from Canada…
Cypress Creek Makes EMS History
On Friday, October 6, 2017 at approximately 8:30 pm Cypress Creek made EMS history as the first civilian system in the country to transfuse whole blood in the field into a trauma patient…
Harvey By The Numbers
From August 25 to August 31, the Cypress Creek Communications Centers answered more than 12,000 calls, representing more than 5400 actual incidents, the majority of which were water rescue calls. The Comm Center handles 9-1-1 and dispatch for a total of 16 emergency agencies including….