The Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) certifies more than 20,000 Emergency Medical Technician (EMTs) and licenses more than 1,700 Mobile Intensive Care Paramedics (MICP's) as well as licensing mobility assistance vehicles, ambulances, mobile intensive care units, specialty care transport units and air medical units totaling more than 4,500 vehicles.

Created in 1967, Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) was the first office of its kind in the United States. OEMS is part of the department's division of Division of Disaster Preparedness, Resiliency, and Emergency Medical Services (DPREMS). 

For routine business questions, please call 609-633-7777 or send an email to ems@doh.nj.gov

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NJ EMS Community,

On January 3, 2023, the Department of Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) issued a guidance memo advising the EMS regulated community of new statutory revisions to the New Jersey Emergency Medical Services Act (OEMS) N.J.S.A. 26:2K-7 to -74 (See P.L. 2022, c.118).  In the guidance memo, OEMS explained the amendments to the Act and how OEMS was implementing the amendments pending official changes to the rules at N.J.A.C. 8:41 and N.J.A.C. 8:41A.  Included in the memo was a recommendation that all NJ paramedics responding to 911 calls on MICUs use the 2022 NJ Clinical Practice Guidelines for the advanced life support provider that was developed and adopted by the Mobile Intensive Care Advisory Council  to ensure that the most up-to-date, high quality medical care was provided to emergency medical patients.

On February 10, 2025, the Mobile Intensive Care Advisory Council approved revisions to the protocols.  Accordingly, to continue to provide emergency medical patients with high quality care, OEMS recommends that these updated protocols be utilized by all basic and advanced life support clinicians.

Sincerely,

Candace Gardner
Director
NJ OEMS

2025 New Jersey EMS Clinical Practice Protocols & Guidelines

Today Commissioner Baston enacted an Executive Directive expanding the scope of Buprenorphine or its equivalent for paramedics to include the treatment of opioid withdrawal without the pre-requisite of receiving an opioid antidote. This important advancement will assist our clinicians in better meeting the needs of this vulnerable population. Below is the full executive directive.

“Moving mountains one pebble at a time”

***Executive Directive No. 25-001***

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