The City of Detroit provides an extensive prehospital care system for its citizens with faculty members at Wayne State University holding leading positions. Dr. Brooks Bock, the Project Medical Director is assisted by Dr. Jenny Atas and Dr. Matthew Griffin in coordinating and monitoring the delivery of prehospital care. The City of Detroit has one of the busiest EMS systems in the country responding to approximately 9000 calls per month.
Communication is maintained with the prehospital technicians by way of a telemetry base station.
Detroit Receiving Hospital in addition to serving as one of the city's four base stations, also serves as medical control for telemetry communications and monitors all advanced transmissions. Dr.'s Bock, Atas and Griffin as well as the Emergency Medicine faculty and residents are extremely active in the training, certification and education of greater than 500 medical technicians.