The medical care of Aachen's citizens is provided by the City of Aachen's rescue service.
In addition to the emergency care received via the emergency number 112, this often involves transportation that requires medical assistance. Our colleagues in Aachen also manage the coordination of all these journeys and the respective qualified specialist personnel.
Unfortunately, we experience time and again that the term emergency is interpreted differently or sometimes misunderstood. Basically, you can always first consider whether you can help yourself or whether the help of acquaintances, neighbors, colleagues or family members is sufficient. You can also call a cab to get to the doctor or hospital. Otherwise, there are many different ways to get help. We have listed the most important numbers here and found some examples to help you understand who you should call and when.
Only for emergencies or acutely life-threatening conditions & illnesses such as:
For hospital admissions, necessary trips to doctors' surgeries or trips where specialist medical care is required.
The medical on-call service will help you outside of consultation hours with, among other things
The 116117 has specialized in finding the best help for any health assistance.
The Aachen Rescue Service School is a state-recognized emergency paramedic school. In addition to the training of paramedics and the annual further and advanced training of almost 400 employees, training to become an emergency paramedic is one of the core elements of the school. The fact that the paramedic school is part of the Aachen professional fire department results in special training features that are unique and thus represent a unique selling point.
Trainees come into contact with telemedicine at an early stage and spend time with emergency doctors.
Trainees experience at first hand what it means to apply medical skills in extraordinary situations.
Work shadowing with experienced control center dispatchers is an integral part of the training plan.
We regularly go on excursions to cross-border control centers and rescue stations to get to know the local rescue service systems at first hand.
The training in detail.
Emergency paramedics have the highest level of non-medical training in emergency medicine in the whole of Germany. They are alerted to unforeseeable emergencies in the urban area and stabilize the health of patients at the scene so that they can be transported safely and reliably to a suitable hospital. In doing so, they have a leadership responsibility in teamwork and specify the measures to be taken.
The training usually lasts three years and takes place entirely in Aachen.
After successfully completing the training, we offer seamless firefighting training at the Aachen professional fire department.
With a further 18 months of training, you can become a fire chief with civil servant status.
We want to make a lifelong and loyal commitment to you and therefore offer you one of the most versatile and sustainable professions: Fire and rescue service!
A joint institution of the City of Aachen and the University Hospital RWTH Aachen. The aim of the institute is to bundle the necessary innovative further development of pre-hospital emergency care and medical emergency response within the framework of strategic, user-oriented and scientific cooperation.
The basis for the cooperation is the high level of technical and administrative expertise of both institutions: As a super-maximum care hospital, the University Hospital RWTH Aachen plays a central role in medical care in the Aachen region and carries out extensive activities in research, teaching and patient care. Pre-hospital care in the rescue and emergency doctor service, organized by the professional fire department of the city of Aachen, as well as the area of inter-hospital transport also stand for a high standard of quality. With the tele-emergency doctor system, a research idea has already been sustainably transferred to standard care.
We are looking for experienced colleagues, trainees and career changers from manual, technical or scientific backgrounds.
If you are sporty and want to help other people, you already have the most important prerequisites for working in the fire and rescue service. A cool head and empathy help in the field. A willingness to perform, courageous and responsible action, mental resilience, as well as enjoyment of working with modern technical equipment and a willingness to work shifts are further important prerequisites.
A quick grasp of things and enjoyment of working closely in a team round off the profile.
