National Emergency Medical Services Week 2013 is May 19-25, and BRMC Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is celebrating! Join BRMC EMS personnel this weekend for food, fun and helpful information about the BRMC Community Paramedic Mobile Healthcare program. Join us on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. at Flippin Walmart. TLC Bank - Flippin will be providing hot dogs, and you don't want to miss the dunking booth! On Sunday, May 19, join us at Orscheln Farm & Home Supply at 1025 Hwy 62E in Mountain Home from 11 a.m. - 3 p.m, with Arvest Bank of Mountain Home providing hot dogs.

Emergency medical services are a type of emergency service dedicated to providing out-of-hospital acute medical care, transport to definitive care, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves.

The goal of most emergency medical services is to either provide treatment to those in need of urgent medical care, with the goal of satisfactorily treating the presenting conditions, or arranging for timely removal of the patient to the next point of definitive care (which is most likely an emergency department at a hospital). The term emergency medical service evolved to reflect a change from a simple system of ambulances providing only transportation, to a system in which actual medical care is given on scene and during transport. In some developing regions, the term is not used, or may be used inaccurately, since the service in question does not provide treatment to the patients, but only the provision of transport to the point of care.

Each year, National EMS Week brings together local communities and medical personnel to publicize safety and honor the dedication of those who provide the day-to-day lifesaving services of medicine's "front line."