LifeStar Ambulance Service, Inc. Centralia, IL

Lifestar Ambulance Service, Inc. Centralia Illinois was established in 1973 and was the first of our divisions in central and southern Illinois. We provide emergent and non-emergent ambulance service to residents in the following towns in Marion, Clinton, Washington, and Jefferson counties in Illinois. We are the 911 A.L.S. ambulance provider for Centralia, Sandoval, Patoka, Walnut Hill, Hoffman, and the surrounding rural areas. Along with providing 911 service  we also provide interfacillity transports between hospitals and to and from doctors appointments (in Centralia only). Our fleet consists of 5 ambulances and 1 wheel chair / car service vehicle.

We function under the protocols of the North Egypt EMS System based at St.Mary's Good Samaritan Hospital in Mt.Vernon, IL. This is a very advanced and progressive EMS system that in recent years has been overhauled to meet the needs of the community and the types of transports that are occurring. Along with the medications and procedures that we already carry and perform on the ambulance we are also able to administer and continue more advanced medications and procedures between hospitals under our new Interfacillity Specialty Care protocols. This was done in response to the required specialized care that is available at larger hospitals and greatly reduces the amount of time it takes to get an injured or ill patient from the hospital they are in to a specialty care hospital a little further away. Due to our close proximity to St.Louis most of our interfacility transports go there.

Due to this need for further care and the critical nature of some of these transports we have implemented our "critical care unit". This ambulance functions the same as the rest of our units but with added resources to better care for our patients. This unit carries our own I.V. pumps designed for transport, 12-Lead EKG monitoring, non-invasive blood pressure monitoring, and on board ventilator. This unit has the ability to transport two critically ill or injured patients at the same time while allowing to bring along enough staff to care for both patients at once. This unit has a built in diesel powered generator to meet all of our power requirements for such a transport and the ability to take family members along if anyone wishes to go as the unit is designed to carry more people than a standard ambulance. Please take a look at our pictures page to see photos of our equipment.