SWEENY EMS & WEST BRAZOS EMS
Those are the names you'll see on the ambulances
owned and operated by Sweeny Community Hospital as separate divisions
of one emergency medical service. The EMS operates out of 2 stations one
in Sweeny and one in Brazoria. The hospital's EMS provides ambulance
service to approximately 35,000 people in a combined 1,200-square-mile
area that includes the hospital district, Brazoria and many outlying communities.
Sweeny/West
Brazos EMS has five ambulances and 18 full-time medics, and 6 part time
medics. Including Texas
certified paramedics, EMT-Intermediates and EMT-Basics.
SCH has the only ambulances in Brazoria County
certified as Mobile Intensive Care Units - the highest level designated
by the Texas Department of Health for EMS organizations.
Ambulance
service also is available for non-emergency transfers from home for
medical office appointments, dialysis and other transportation needs to
and from medical facilities. The EMS also provides transfers from one
hospital to other facilities if requested.
When they're not busy providing emergency care, the
hospital's EMS crews are visible throughout the area, giving flu shots,
standing by to provide first aid at local festivals and parades, or participating
in school and Scouting events throughout the hospital's service area.
The EMS can be reached at the hospital station 979-548-1564, the
Brazoria station 979-798-8040, the on duty supervisors cell phone
979-487-9070. The EMS Director Mike Nixon can be reached at
979-548-1597.
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