2025 was a busy year. Our six paramedic units were dispatched to 4,125 calls, rode to the hospital with 2,189 patients, and had a paramedic on scene in under nine minutes on average, in the valley and on the mountaintop.
This page is the short version of what that looked like. Thank you to the ambulance crews, fire departments, dispatchers, and hospitals we work with every day, and to the towns and the county for backing us.
By the numbers
Six paramedic units, five stations, every town in the county, around the clock.
Not everyone we evaluate rides with a paramedic. Some patients are treated and released at the scene, some decline transport, and some are stable enough to go with the ambulance crew. Passengers in a car crash who turn out to be unhurt are evaluated too.
Calls by month
March was the busiest month of the year.
Busiest month: March with 387 calls. Slowest: April with 288.
What we were called for
Patients by type of emergency, county-wide.
Treatment starts at the scene.
Strokes, heart attacks, asthma attacks, overdoses: the first treatment happens where the patient is. Our units carry the monitors, ventilators, and medications to start it, and a paramedic to use them.
What rides in our trucks →Advanced care
What makes a call advanced life support. Also 1,806 IV and IO lines started at the scene.
Heart attacks and cardiac arrests
Breathing for people who can't
Strokes, sepsis, and the long ride
Calls by town
Where the calls were, and where patients went.
Each dot is ten calls. Lighter towns had more calls. Windham and Catskill are mutual aid only. Totals are by the location of the call.
- Coxsackie1,020
- Cairo766
- Athens370
- Hunter367
- Durham364
- Greenville342
- New Baltimore256
- Catskill136
- Prattsville133
- Lexington88
- Ashland58
- Jewett16
- Windham15
- Outside Greene County36
Where patients went
The nearest hospital is across the river in Hudson. The nearest trauma center and cath lab could be up to 80 minutes away in Albany. That is why a paramedic rides along when a patient needs one, and why 31 patients went by helicopter.
See who covers your town →Calls by unit
Five stations, six trucks, one paramedic in each. Medic 5 ran the most calls.
Each unit is a Chevy Tahoe with one paramedic and the same equipment: a cardiac monitor, a ventilator, and every medication a New York paramedic can carry. Medic 1 is the Chief's truck and covers the gaps.
Where each unit is based →
The model New York now recommends
In March 2026 the New York State Rural Ambulance Services Task Force reported to the Legislature. Of its 38 proposals, number 8 is tiered response: a local ambulance plus a paramedic fly car, with the closest appropriate unit sent to every call. Greene County has run that system since 2000.
Read the task force report"Tiered response models consisting of BLS transporting units and ALS non transporting EMS vehicles may greatly increase response capabilities and create more resilient response systems by preserving ALS level care for when it is needed."
New York State Report on Rural Ambulance Services, 2026, page 24Thank you
To the ambulance services of Greene County, the fire departments, Greene County 911, the emergency departments at Columbia Memorial, Albany Med, St. Peter's and Kingston, our Board of Directors, the town boards, and the Greene County Legislature: thank you.