The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is a federal agency, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, with a mission to save lives on American roads. NHTSA provides national leadership to emergency medical services (EMS) and 911 systems through its Office of EMS. Check out EMS.gov for resources, events, and training that celebrate EMS. A 2023 report from the Maine Rural Health Research Center analyzed 41 states and found that 4.5 million people lived in an ambulance desert; more than half of them in rural counties.
