Shift Supervisors

Leavenworth County EMS has (6) Shift Officers, one Captain and one Lieutenant per shift. The Shift Officers are responsible for the ambulance crews and the activities throughout the shift on a day to day basis. The Captain is assigned to the EMS Headquarters station and the Lieutenant is assigned to Station 2 in Tonganoxie. Each officer is a trained paramedic, utilizing a 4 wheel drive SUV as their response vehicle. These response vehicles carry most equipment of that of an ambulance with them.

The Shift Officers report directly to the Operations Manager, and are frequently dispatched, along with ambulance crews, to calls of serious clinical nature, multi-patient calls, unstable crime scenes, calls involving entrapment of patients, and to calls that have multiple agencies responding to the scene.

On significant incidents, Shift Officers will coordinate the medical response and on-scene medical operations, may order and deploy additional medical resources, and will, along with other command staff, develop a strategy for medical aspects of an incident.