Mobile Health Service
Robert Wood Johnson's Mobile Health Service is made up of four main divisions:
Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Life Support (ALS), Specialty Care
Transport Unit (SCTU), and the Medical Communications Center (MedCentral).
Click on the links below to learn more about each division.
Basic Life Support
Advanced Life Support
Specialty Care Transport Unit
Medical Communications Center
About Us
Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Mobile Health Service has been
operational since January 1982. The department started after assuming
responsibility for Advanced Life Support from the original pilot program
operated by the New Brunswick Fire Department. The department has also
provided BLS ambulance service to the City of New Brunswick since this
time. Additional Advanced Life Support units were added to the system
in 1983 (East Brunswick), 1989 (South Brunswick) and 2009 (Monroe).
In 1995, the department augmented the BLS ambulance service to handle hospital-based
transports from RWJUH as well, and in 1996 added a Specialty Care Transport
Unit (SCTU) for critical inter-facility transports. This SCTU is augmented
by a specialty pediatric transport unit as well.
In 1999, RWJUH began providing primary 911 ambulance coverage in Hamilton
Township, Mercer County, and in 2006 began providing 911 service in Piscataway
and Franklin Townships. The department also provided 911 coverage in North
Brunswick and Old Bridge for periods of time until those towns had operational
municipal services.
In 2012, the department changed its name from Emergency Medical Service
to Mobile Health Service to reflect the future of this profession as it
expands in scope to provide numerous other services. In 2014, RWJUH merged
with Somerset Medical Center, integrating both departments into a single
comprehensive system. The merger added three peak daytime ALS units and
nine peak daytime BLS units. This system added coverage area for ALS service
across most of Somerset Counties, and BLS coverage in Manville, South
Bound Brook, Bridgewater, Raritan, Far Hills / Bedminster, and Branchburg.
In 2014, RWJUH began a comprehensive redesign of Med Central, its EMS communications
center. All elements of the center were improved, including expansion
of the size from four to sixteen positions, adding state-of-the-art digital
radios, improved telephones and computer aided dispatch (CAD) and other
technologies.
RWJUH is also the central New Jersey lead agency for the New Jersey EMS
Task Force, and serves as the home agency for the Central Planner, Mass
Casualty Response Unit #5, and ASAP ambulance #5.
In 2014, RWJUH Mobile Health Service received the prestigious Outstanding
Private EMS System award from the New Jersey EMS Council and the State
of New Jersey, Department of Health, Office of EMS.