St. Marys Ambulance Service has been in operation since 1965. From humble beginnings this service has grown to be one of the cutting edges in the state. From highly trained employees to equipment that is technologically advanced, St. Marys Ambulance has been able to provide our community with a service that rivals or surpasses most urban Emergency Medical Services.

In February of 1993, the St. Marys Ambulance Service was approved to become an ALS service, meaning that we could provide Advanced Life Support to the citizens of the community. This allowed our Paramedics to administer life saving medications, intubations, and cardiac monitoring in the field. In 1999 all of our medics were certified as Critical Care Paramedic, an across the board training level unknown in the state of Pennsylvania.

In the past 10 years our service has acquired advanced life saving equipment such as the LifePak 12. This machine can detect abnormal heart rhythms, administer cardiac defibrillation and with the additional CO2 detector, we can endotracheally detect carbon dioxide in the lungs. We have upgraded our radio equipment to better communicate with each other and nearby agencies. We have recently acquired portable ventilators to use on long distance emergency transports. In addition we now have power assisted cots that will reduce back injuries for our employees.

In the past ten years, St. Marys Ambulance Service has seen major expansion including the construction of a new station. This new station was constructed to accommodate the service in regards to vehicle housing, office space, crew quarters and in house training.

One of the greatest assets of the expansion has been the in house training facility. This facility has allowed our employees to acquire the training needed to keep them abreast of current treatments and procedures. It has also facilitated the training for our Paramedics to become certified as Critical Care Paramedics. Our service was the first in the state to achieve this exemplary level of training. In addition, we regularly offer CPR, EMT, and EMT Paramedic classes through the American Heart Association and Butler County Community College to the public with instructors that are trained and certified right here at our station.

Our service maintains a strong commitment to our community. We are a common but comforting sight at most outdoor school activities including football and soccer games, Stallion football, and wrestling and cheerleading tournaments. We routinely donate our efforts to civic occasions like the St. Marys Airport Drag Races, various health fairs and the Lee Foster Memorial Runs. We are a familiar presence to our youth offering CPR classes in the schools in addition to career days, city park programs and station tours. Our employees commonly hold one on one CPR classes for the local medical and industrial facility employees.

Our service has always prided itself on its employee's achievements and abilities. We could not have gotten this far without the direction of our Manager Robert Sorg. His compassionate and forward thinking attitude has been our primary asset. He has taken this service from a small town Ambulance Service to a vital Pre Hospital Emergency Care Service that is second to none in the area.