Freedom House Ambulance

We proudly pay homage to the remarkable legacy of the Freedom ...

Established in Pittsburgh in 1967, the Freedom House Ambulance Service stands as a beacon of innovation and equity in emergency medical services.

Freedom House - Matthew Edwards, M.D.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service · Click on the link below to read Edwards' perspectives on Freedom House in an article for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · The ...

Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders (2023) - IMDb

Freedom House Ambulance: The FIRST Responders: Directed by Annette Banks. In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America's first EMT service, ...

The Freedom House Ambulance Service changed healthcare

Freedom House Ambulance Service was America's first ambulance service staffed by Black citizens trained to save lives.

How Pittsburgh's 'Freedom House' shaped modern EMS systems

Freedom House was a cutting-edge experiment in prehospital care that helped break down racial barriers and shape the development of a fledgling EMS system in ...

Freedom House: The Nation's First EMS Agency

All this changed with the creation of the Freedom House Ambulance Service. Click below to learn more about this revolutionary EMS agency.

Black History Month Celebration: Freedom House Ambulance Service

Black History Month 2024 celebrates the Freedom House Ambulance Service, the first emergency medical service in the United States to be ...

Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders - NWPB

Discover the story of America's first EMT service from Pittsburgh's inner city.

The Legacy of Freedom House: The Black Men Who Became ...

Freedom House Ambulance was created to provide prehospital care to an underserved, neglected Black community that was to become the standard ...

Freedom House Ambulance: The First Responders - WTTW Video

Discover the story of America's first EMT service from Pittsburgh's inner city.

Breaking Barriers: The Legacy of Freedom House Ambulance Service

After the introduction of Pittsburgh's new 'official' EMS service, Freedom House was quickly forgotten, and credit for their new pioneering work ...

| Freedom House Ambulance In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city ...

Freedom House Ambulance In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America's first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited ...

Freedom House Ambulance Service - The Diabetic EMT

Freedom House Ambulance Service, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the first true EMS system in the United States. Before the inception ...

Social Studies: Freedom House Ambulance – The FIRST Responders

In 1967, Pittsburgh's inner city produced America's first EMT service. Comprised solely of Black men and women recruited from the city's Hill District ...

Freedom House Ambulance's Untold Story of Unprecedented ...

The story of Freedom House Ambulance is little known to many, but it pioneered the forefronts of mobile emergency medical services in the ...

All-black ambulance service inspired today's EMS system - Scope

The Freedom House Ambulance Service helped establish the national training model for EMS programs, but abruptly shut down in 1975.

Freedom House Ambulance Service: 50 years of a delayed promise ...

The Freedom House Ambulance Service in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, were absolute pioneers in modern emergency medical services.

The First Responders - The Atavist Magazine

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where journalist Dolores Frederick doggedly covered the ambulance wars, reported that the purchase price of Freedom House's ...

Freedom House Ambulance | By United Steelworkers - Facebook

This documentary tells the story of the community's needs and the local, predominantly Black residents that stepped up to meet them.

Founding members of Freedom House in Pittsburgh share story of ...

As an ambulance races to get to the hospital in time the paramedics inside may or may not know the history of the training that's become their ...