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Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) WEB FB

Communications

Medical Emergency Radio Communications of Illinois (MERCI) (A network of frequencies established to allow traffic for mobile-to-mobile, mobile-to-hospital, and hospital-to-hospital channels designated by IDPH. ("Patient Reports") MERCI allows ambulances throughout the state to communicate with hospital emergency departments and facilitates communications between hospitals on a point-to-point basis.

  • 155.34 - MERCI340
  • 155.4 - MERCI400
  • 155.16 - Used in the Metro East Counties (near St Louis)

IDPH I-REACH/VHF Interoperability Radios:

  • XTL-5000 (mobile), HT-1250 (portable), MTR-2000 (Base Station)

In base radio, 110W VHF, with up to 16 channels:

  • 1) 155.28 141.3 PL - Statewide Hospital Disaster Coordination
  • 2) 155.34 210.7 PL - Statewide MERCI Tone
  • 3) 155.34, 155.4, 155.16, 155.22 (with Local Tone)

IDPH EMS Regions and Systems

Illinois Ambulance Classification Levels Critical Care Ambulance perform skills beyond the national standard curriculum with a registered nurse (RN) or critical care paramedic on the ambulance in accordance with the national standard curriculum and the EMS medical director.

Advanced Life Support (ALS) Ambulance An ALS ambulance is staffed with a minimum of one paramedic and one EMT-Basic that are capable of providing advanced life support (ALS) or basic life support (BLS) care. Paramedics can perform invasive skills such as intubation, surgical airways, defibrillation, and medication administration in accordance with the national standard curriculum and the EMS medical director.

Intermediate Life Support (ILS) Ambulance An ILS ambulance is staffed with a minimum of one EMT-intermediate, pre-hospital RN or physician who is capable of providing Intermediate life support (ILS) or basic life support (BLS) care and one other EMT, pre-hospital RN or physician. EMT-intermediates can perform some invasive skills such as intubation, initiation of intravenous access, administer some medications, cardiac monitoring and defibrillation in accordance with the national standard curriculum and the EMS Medical Director.

Basic Life Support (BLS) Ambulance A BLS ambulance is staffed by two EMT-basics who are capable of providing non-invasive life saving measures including basic airway measures, spinal immobilization, bleeding control, splinting, oxygen administration and the use of automated external defibrillator (AED) in accordance with the national standard curriculum and the EMS medical director.

The Hospital Bypass System (EMResource)

  • An internet-based system that hospitals use to communicate bypass status, counts for required and available bed types, and other critical resources during a disaster and on a routine basis. During an event that may cause disruption of the internet, the required bed count information would be sent to the PHEOC utilizing Starcom radio or other means as indicated by IDPH (Attachment 16).

Chicago EMS System

Region 1 - Rockford

Winnebago County has the regional medical centers for region-1, all 3 Level 1 trauma centers are in Rockford.

Region 2 - Regionwide

Eastern Illinois EMS System"'

OSF St Francis EMS System (Peoria)

Region 2 TICP (Tactical Interoperable Communications Plan) VHF Radio Channel Frequency Description

  • MERCI 155.34 Ambulance to Hospital Communications
  • MERCI 2 155.28 Designated for hospital to hospital communications
  • IREACH 155.055 Designated for communications among Illinois Public Safety agencies when no other direct means of communication is available.

STARCOM 21 Radio Channel Zone Description

  • EMS B For communicating amongst all RHCC Hospitals
  • EMS R2 B For communicating amongst all Hospitals in Region 2

Hospital MERCI (PL/CTCSS Tones)

  • 1 Advocate BroMenn Medical Center 94.8
  • 2 Advocate Eureka Hospital 141.3
  • 3 Galesburg Cottage Hospital 107.2
  • 4 Genesis Medical Center, Aledo 225.7
  • 5 Genesis Medical Center, Illini 110.9
  • 6 Graham Hospital 173.8
  • 7 Hammond Henry Hospital 229.1
  • 8 Hopedale Medical Complex 85.4
  • 9 Illinois Valley Community Hospital 162.2
  • 10 McDonough District Hospital 100.0
  • 11 OSF Holy Family Medical Center 71.9
  • 12 OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 97.4
  • 13 OSF Saint Francis Medical Center 167.9
  • 14 OSF Saint James Medical Center 118.8
  • 15 OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center 210.7
  • 16 OSF Saint Luke Medical Center 136.5
  • 17 OSF Saint Mary Medical Center 107.2
  • 18 OSF Saint Paul Medical Center 146.2
  • 19 Pekin Memorial Hospital 97.4
  • 20 Perry memorial Hospital 179.9
  • 21 St. Margaret’s Hospital 162.2
  • 22 Unity Point Health, Methodist 82.5
  • 23 Unity Point Health, Proctor 230.0
  • 24 Unity Point Health, Trinity 179.9

Region 3

Southern Illinois Trauma Center (SITC) WEB1 WEB2

  • The SITC has a permanent home at Springfield Memorial Hospital. - For 15 years, the SITC hospital site alternated annually between St. John’s Hospital and Springfield Memorial Hospital.
  • The Southern Illinois Trauma Center is the first Level 1 trauma center in the region, serving 18 counties throughout central and southern Illinois. Operated by SIU School of Medicine.
  • The area served by the new Southern Illinois Trauma Center is designated by IDPH Region III and includes 18 counties -- Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Greene, Hancock, Jersey, Logan, Macoupin, Mason, Menard, Montgomery, Morgan, Pike, Sangamon, Schuyler and Scott.
  • There are two other Level II hospitals in the region -- Blessing Hospital in Quincy and Passavant Area Hospital in Jacksonville. They, along with Memorial and St. John's and Jersey Medical Community Hospital in Jerseyville, are the resource hospitals for Emergency Medical Systems (EMS).

Region 4

  • Madison, St. Clair, Bond, Clinton, Monroe, Randolph and Washington.

Southwestern Illinois EMS System System Policy Manual PDF

  • Belleville Memorial - Pod Hospital (Net Control KWF792) Touchette Regional-Centreville, Kenneth Hall-East St. Louis, St. Elizabeths-Belleville, St.Josephs-Breese, SAFB Medical Center, Red Bud Memorial Regional, Sparta Community, Anderson-Maryville, Alton Memorial, Gateway Regional-Granite City, St. Anthony's-Alton, St. Josephs-Highland, Utlat-Greenville, Thomas Boyd Memorial-Carrollton, Community Memorial-Staunton, Fayette County-Vandalia Region 4 info provided by Loyola University Health System

Region 5 R5 Numbers

North Egypt EMS System

  • St. Mary's Good Samaritan in Mt. Vernon
  • Established in 1979 and serves Jefferson, Marion, Franklin, Washington, Perry, and Saline County.

Region 8 - Du Page (southern)

  • A busy, state-defined EMS region west of downtown Chicago. Good Samaritan in Downers Grove

Loyola EMS System Loyola EMS Manual PDF

Region 9

  • McHenry, Kane, part of Lake, part Kendall, northern DuPage Counties
  • Christ Hospital McHenry and southern Lake county are assigned MED channels as follows: PRIMARY: 7 TERTIARY: 6 SECONDARY: 5 ITINERANT OR COMMON: 8

Northwest Community EMS System WEB

  • The Resource Hospital for the Northwest Community EMS System is: Northwest Community Hospital, located in Arlington Heights

5 Hospitals are associate hospitals of the EMS System:

  • Alexian Brothers Medical Center, located in Elk Grove Village
  • Adventist Glen Oaks Hospital, located in Glendale Heights
  • Good Shepherd Hospital, located in Barrington
  • Resurrection Medical Center, located in Chicago
  • St. Alexius Medical Center, located in Hoffman Estates

21 Fire Agencies and 3 Private ambulance services are members of the Northwest Community EMS System:

  • Advantage Ambulance, Inc.
  • A-Tec Ambulance
  • Arlington Height Fire Department
  • Barrington Fire Department
  • Barrington Countryside Fire Protection District
  • Bloomingdale Fire Protection District
  • Buffalo Grove Fire Department
  • Des Plaines Fire Department
  • Elk Grove Rural Fire Protection District
  • Elk Grove Village Fire Department
  • Fermilab Fire Department
  • Hoffman Estates Fire Department
  • Itasca Fire Protection District
  • Lake Zurich Fire/Rescue Department
  • Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District
  • Long Grove Fire Protection District
  • Mount Prospect Fire Department
  • Palatine Fire Department
  • Palatine Rural Fire Protection District
  • Prospect Heights Fire Protection District
  • Rolling Meadows Fire Department
  • Schaumburg Fire Department
  • Superior Ambulance Services
  • Wood Dale Fire Department

Region 11 - Chicago

All Chicago Hospitals are on a repeater. Telemetry hospitals are divided into 3 area

  • North - 156.7 PL
  • Central - 146.2 PL
  • South - 173.8 PL

In each region, all operations are run by Resource Hospitals Associate Hospitals function underneath Resource Hospitals. Multi-Victim incidents, EMS Plans are to be called into Resource Hospitals, while most other runs can be called into Associate Hospitals. We do have assigned Hospitals we are supposed to call, but we don't follow that always for various reasons. Med 8 is not repeatered on any systems.

  • FYI... It is NOT necessary to monitor the input frequency of any MED frequency, they are all on Repeaters
  • CFD Ops Channel 8 (476.2875 simplex, 69.3 PL) is used for Helicopter EMS landing zone coordination ops.

St. Louis Area Hospitals

  • For a more complete list of St Louis hospitals, see St Louis City and County
  • 155.34000 BM 114.8 PL HEAR 114.8 Barnes-Jewish: Ambulance-to-Hospital Comms (to ARCH, etc) FMN Hospital
  • 155.34000 BM 114.8 PL HEAR 114.8 Missouri Baptist (St. Louis) FMN Hospital

HEMS - Air Helicopters / Med-Evac

Air Evac Lifeteam (GMR) CommCenter/CENCOM Service Area/Base Locations AirMedCare Network (GMR) WEB

  • See our Air Evac Nationwide RR WIKI (This will have links to other states MediVac pages)
  • Serves Central and Southern Illinois (and surrounding states)
  • Communications may be heard hundreds of miles away due to the use of Illegal permanent high power bases/aircraft being used on 151.505/158.4

Air Methods WEB Operations Control Center (OCC) YT

  • 461.525 Repeater, 468.875 Mobile (NFM at Bradley-Kankakee), used by Lifestar Chicago (Joliet) WQWX343

ARCH Air Medical Services WEB FB

  • See our (Multistate) WIKI for more information
  • Operated by Air Methods; ARCH has been committed to providing essential and lifesaving services to the Missouri and Illinois region for over 50 years.
  • Established in 1979, by St. Louis University (SLU) Medical Center staffers, Air Methods acquired ARCH in 2000 and continued the program’s expansion and excellence in air medical operations
  • Bases: Granite City, IL; Sparta, IL; Litchfield, IL; Effingham, IL; Carbondale, IL; Sullivan, MO (NEEDS UPDATED)

Rescue Flight WEB FB

  • Rescue 1, Based at HSHS St Josephs Hospital, Highland IL; Operated by Air Methods

Other Companies

Superior Air Med

  • In addition to STARCOM21 talkgroup 36531, they have been heard testing talkgroups 36532-36535. They also utilize Outerlink Global Solutions' satellite-based service IRIS, which includes Push-To-Talk VoIP radio.

Survival Flight WEB

  • See the new (2025) RR WIKI PAGE (All information has been moved here)
  • Currently has bases in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Tennessee but will fly anywhere in the United States where our services are needed. Survival Flight operates Bell helicopters and Pilatus PC-12 aircraft. The Pilatus PC-12 is dispatched just as a helicopter, does not have to be scheduled in advance and can fly when weather does not permit a helicopter to fly

University of Chicago Aeromedical Network (UCAN)

  • UCAN Base (129.475) has been heard acting as the Chicago-area contact for aeromed helos from outside the Chicago area, including SAMARITAN (Parkview Health) and LUTHERAN AIR (Lutheran Health Network), both based in Northern Indiana.
  • Reference to channel "TAC 3" has been heard on 464.800 (a different frequency than 464.800). Possibly 129.475? A different frequency?
  • MedEx Ambulance provides ground transport services for UCAN.
  • UCAN's aviation services are provided by Air Methods.

EMS Agencies (Area-Wide)

AMR Abbott Ambulance

  • Serves Metro East St Louis (IL) - Madison and St Clair Counties and St Louis City/County
  • Primary 911 service to St Clair County (Belleville, Fairmont City, State Park, Fairview Heights, Swansea)
  • Primary 911 service to city of Madison (Madison County)
  • Provides Emergency Hospital-to-Hospital transfers and discharges to Memorial Belleville, Memorial Shiloh, St Elizabeth's O'Fallon IL, Anderson Hospital Maryville, Gateway Regional Granite City
  • Provides emergency/non-emergency transports (as available) to ER from most SNF (in St Clair County), and some SNF (in Madison County) Granite Nursing and Rehab, Liberty Village Maryville, Eden Village Glen Carbon, Edwardsville Care Center, University Care Center Edwardsville, Edwardsville Care Center (due to lengthy response times, Madison County SNF may be asked to use their local 911 EMS service)
  • May provide Mutual Aid/Backup emergency/911 service for MedStar EMS, O'Fallon-Shiloh EMS
  • Primary 911/Transfer service to Franklin County IL.
  • Primary 911 service to Harrisburg in Saline County (as of 1/24)
  • Transfer service for Sarah Bush Hospital (Coles County) (does not serve the local 911 system)

Abbott EMS - Decatur/Macon County

  • 8/15/22 - To replace DAS for Decatur/Macon County Link
  • Decatur City Code for Ambulance Service LINK
  • Also, see the Abbott EMS WIKI in Missouri

AMR New Lenox '

  • Provides service in New Lenox IL (formerly Kurtz Ambulance) (no longer in service 12/22)
  • Provides paramedics for Streator Fire (as of 7/22)

Lakeside EMS

  • Bases in Effingham, Mt Vernon, Centralia, Arcola, Caseyville, Alton (1002 Martin Luther King Blvd)
  • Mostly providing IFT (Inter-Facility Transfers)
  • As of 3/1/23 began providing 911 response for Godfrey and the west side of Alton in Madison County Article

Lifestar Ambulance

  • Former Campbell-Superior; began business in 1979.
  • Bases in Jacksonville (Morgan), Centralia (Clinton, Marion), Springfield (Sangamon) division

Former Divisions

  • Alton Division shut down 3/1/23 and is being served by Lakeside EMS of Effingham. Article
  • Alton also has EMS service by Alton Memorial Hospital EMS (Christian Hospital/BJC) and Alton Fire Department

MedStar EMS WIKI

  • Serving SouthWest Illinois - Randolph, Clinton, St Clair and Madison Counties

RuralMed EMS WEB Fayette FB Bond FB Effingham FB MetroEast (Madison/St Clair) FB

  • Serving Fayette, Bond, Effingham, Madison, St Clair Counties (along I-70)
  • Rural Med Communications center in located at the main Headquarters in St Elmo (training, conference, billing, living quarters and break room) Dispatch Center
  • Mutual-aid agreements include Abbott EMS, Lakeside EMS, Jasper County Ambulance Service, Farina Ambulance Service, Stewardson and Pocahontas.
  • Began service 7/25/16 with 1 unit, now operating more than 12 ambulances that provide 911 services and inter-facility transports through out central and south central Illinois. Began providing 911 coverage in Fayette County in 2017, Bond County in January 2021 and Effingham County May 2022. Locations in Greenville, Vandalia, St Elmo, Effingham and Dieterich and MORE to come in the near future!
  • Jan 2021 - Took over the Bond County Special Services District) for all of Bond County that area covered by the Pocahontas-Old Ripley Fire Protection District
  • May 2022 - Took over 911 contract for Effingham County
  • Apr 1, 2023 - Providing primary 911 services for Mitchell Fire and Long Lake FPD (Pontoon Beach) in Madison County.
  • 5 123 01 Chevy Van unit (RMED-??)
  • 5 123 02 Rural Med whi Mercedes Van
  • 5 123 06 Ford unit (RMED-??)
  • Rural Med 1 - Van Ambulance "Blue"
  • Rural Med 2 - Mercedes white Van "The Twins" plate 5 123 02
  • Rural Med 3 - Mercedes white Van "The Twins" (soon to be 2022? White/Black strip Box Ambulance RMED-3)
  • Rural Med 4 - Chevy Box Ambulance (backup during maintenance/repair) "RMED-4 plate 5 137 04 unit 834
  • Rural Med 5 - Dodge Ram 2500 Van (backup in Fayette/Bond Counties area) "RMED-5" plate 5 123 05
  • Rural Med 6 - Chevy? Box Ambulance (Fayette County area) "The Triplets" (white) "RMED-6"
  • Rural Med 7 - Chevy? Box Ambulance (Fayette County area) "The Triplets" (white) "RMED-7" plate 5 123 07
  • Rural Med 8 - Chevy? Box Ambulance (Fayette County area) "The Triplets" "RMED-8" plate 5 123 08 (white)
  • Rural Med 9 - Chevy Duramax 4500 Ambulance (Bond County) "RMED-9" (white/red) 4-B-25 (former Bond County EMS)
  • Rural Med 10 - Ford E-450 Box Ambulance (Bond County) "RMED 10" 4-B-10
  • Rural Med 11 - Ambulance (Bond County) "RMED 11" 4-B-11 (former Bond County EMS)
  • Rural Med 12 - Chevy Box Ambulance (Effingham County area) 5 123 12 "RMED-12" unit 2852
  • Rural Med 13 - Chevy Box Ambulance (Effingham County area) 5 123 13 "RMED-13" unit 2853 whi/blk stripe
  • Rural Med 14 - Chevy Box Ambulance (Effingham County area) 5 123 14 "RMED-14" unit 2854
  • Summer 2022 - Effingham County starts with 2 ALS trucks in Effingham and one in Dieterich

United Medical Response FB

Division 1 - Salem [ WEB] FB Marion County Database page WIKI

Division 2 - Centralia [ WEB] FB Marion County Database page WIKI

Division 3 - Herrin [ WEB] FB Williamson County Database page WIKI

Division 4 - Marion [ WEB] FB Williamson County Database page WIKI

Division 5 - Mt Vernon [ WEB] FB Jefferson County Database page WIKI

Division 6 - Harrisburg [ WEB] FB Saline County Database page WIKI

  • Possibly no longer in business.
  • Based in Salem, 911 provider as well as standby services and interfacility transport following closing of Salem Area Ambulance Service and after Rural Med assisted until services were established.
  • United-XX or

Hospital Systems

THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST BY ANY MEANS

BJC

  • Belleville Memorial Hospital
  • Mostly in St Louis area

Hospital Sisters Health System’s (HSHS) [www.hospitalsisters.org WEB]

  • Mission is to reveal and embody Christ’s healing love for all people through our high-quality, Franciscan health care ministry. HSHS provides state-of-the-art health care to our patients and is dedicated to serving all people, especially the most vulnerable, at each of our 14 local systems and physician practices in Illinois (Belleville, Breese, Decatur, Effingham, Greenville, Highland, Litchfield and Springfield) and Wisconsin (Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Oconto Falls, Sheboygan and two in Green Bay).

Memorial Health (System) WEB LI

  • Springfield Memorial Hospital
  • Decatur Memorial Hospital – Forsyth Family Medicine
  • Lincoln Memorial Hospital
  • Memorial Physician Services
  • ExpressCare, Springfield

OSF HealthCare WEB

  • Integrated health system founded by The Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis. Headquartered in Peoria, with 16 hospitals – 10 acute care, five critical access, one transitional care - with 2,131 licensed beds throughout Illinois and Michigan. OSF employs nearly 24,000 Mission Partners across 150+ locations; has two colleges of nursing; operates OSF Home Care Services, an extensive network of home health and hospice services; owns Pointcore, Inc., comprised of health care-related businesses; OSF HealthCare Foundation, the philanthropic arm for the organization; and OSF Ventures, which provides investment capital for promising health care innovation startups. In 2020, OSF OnCall was established, a digital health operating unit, including a hospital-at-home. OSF OnCall delivers care and services when, where and how patients prefer to receive them. OSF HealthCare has been recognized by Fortune as one of the most innovative companies in the country.

OSF HealthCare has a strong presence in the Illinois Valley, also serving residents of Mendota, Princeton, Ottawa, Marseilles and Streator with 24/7 emergency services, primary and specialty care, prompt care, OSF OnCall Urgent Care and 24/7 digital urgent care, nurse triage and other types of care.

News

SSM

  • Mostly in St Louis area


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