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Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

Banff Emergency Medical Service (EMS) provides pre-hospital inter-facility transport for the Town of Banff, Village of Lake Louise, Banff National Park (Improvement District No.9) and surrounding area.

As a hospital-based service, Banff Advanced Life Support teams have been able to maintain the specialized training and critical skills required for the high level of patient acuity, long distances and back-country rescue.

Banff Mineral Springs Hospital refers the third greatest number of severe trauma patients (Injury Severity Score >12) to the regional trauma centre in Calgary. Traumatic injuries make up over 30% of all Banff EMS events. Banff EMS experience high fluctuations in call volume because of the town and national park’s popularity as a vacation destination.

Covenant Health would like to acknowledge that what we refer to as Alberta is the traditional ancestral territory of a diversity of Indigenous peoples and home to Treaty 6, 7, and 8. We honor the Blackfoot Confederacy – Kainai, Piikani, and Siksika, the Cree, Dene, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, Stoney Nakoda, the Tsuu T’ina Nation and the Métis People of Alberta. This includes the Métis Settlements and the Six Regions of the Métis Nation of Alberta within the historical Northwest Métis Homeland. We recognize and give thanks to the many First Nations, Métis and Inuit who have lived in and cared for these lands for generations, all who continue to grace these lands, and all future generations. We are grateful for the traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who are still with us today and those who have gone before us. We make this acknowledgement as an act of reconciliation and gratitude to those whose territory we reside on or are visiting.

Emergency Medical Services (EMS)

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