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The Bureau of
Emergency Medical Services organizes, regulates, and maintains a statewide program to improve emergency medical care. Mississippi EMS strives to maintain and promote the highest standards of pre-hospital care for the citizens and visitors of Mississippi. BEMS coordinates agency resources in “all hazard” planning and response to disasters. This includes both incidents involving weapons of mass destruction as well as natural disasters such as hurricanes on the coast to ice storms in the delta. The office is responsible for implementing and coordinating the agency’s Emergency Response Plans and Emergency Response Team with the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS), the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), and other agencies for all disasters including weapons of mass destruction and bioterrorism. The Bureau of Trauma System Development and Injury Control, includes the Emergency Medical Services for Children Program. The primary goal of the Mississippi Trauma care System Program is “to provide the architecture for a trauma system which will decrease morbidity and mortality from traumatic injury.”
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