Mutual Aid EMS in Greensburg installs blood coolers for patients on their way to hospitals WPXI [Video]

GREENSBURG, Pa. — Mutual Aid EMS in Greensburg has installed mobile blood coolers in two of their district chief’s vehicles in hopes to better serve patients who are in need of blood before they reach the hospital.

Mutual Aid EMS serves 33 communities across Westmoreland County. They can respond to nearly 100 calls every day.

“[That’s] between 2,500 to 3,000 emergency 911 calls per month,” said Ken Bacha, Director of Community Outreach with Mutual Aid EMS.

Some of those calls can find EMTs working with a patient in a life-threatening situation where they’re losing blood.

“Severe bleeding, accidents, trauma, things like that,” Bacha said.

They wanted to find a way to help those patients as best as they could.

Following the City of Pittsburgh’s lead, which purchased mobile blood coolers in 2023, Mutual Aid EMS worked to get specialized coolers for their district chiefs in May.

The coolers allow the chiefs, which respond to all of these more severe …