Medic One Foundation

The Medic One Foundation was established in 1974 by community and medical leaders in order to ensure that Puget Sound residents get emergency medical care from a trained professional who knows how to save a life. While fire departments are responsible for ensuring a rapid response to a medical emergency, the Medic One Foundation ensures that the care is medically appropriate, employs the most up-to-date procedures and is performed by qualified personnel.

The Medic One Foundation's mission is to raise funds to support excellence in pre-hospital emergency care. The Foundation is dedicated to saving more lives in the pre-hospital setting by ensuring that emergency medical care is medically appropriate, employs the most up-to-date procedures and is performed by qualified personnel. By providing rigorous paramedic training, thorough and independent medical review, and targeted research on methods to improve patient outcomes, the Medic One Foundation has helped to make Medic One services in the Puget Sound region among the very best in the world. Medic One's lifesaving success is a direct result of the community's willingness to invest in rigorous paramedic training and education, targeted research, and independent medical oversight of Medic One services - all made possible through charitable gifts to the Medic One Foundation. Community support of Medic One Foundation programs has resulted in: * A paramedic training and education program that is recognized world-wide for excellence. * An emergency medical services system studied by more than 55 U.S. states and international countries as a model for improvement, and * A survival rate for sudden cardiac arrest that is several times greater than the national average.