How it works
Our network of more than 8,600 volunteers are equipped with the most advanced technology and a diverse fleet of emergency medical vehicles. These volunteer medics respond to more than 2,000 medical emergencies per day, often arriving within minutes, with a goal of 90 seconds or less in metropolitan areas.
Our Technology
When every second counts, United Hatzalah is there.
In a Code Blue scenario, where cardiac arrest strikes and a 60-year-old gentleman is stranded on the 4th floor, United Hatzalah volunteers sweep in, reaching the scene with a goal of a mere 90 seconds. With practiced precision, they stabilize the patient, orchestrating seamless transportation to the medical facility. And thus, they stand prepared for the next urgent summons.
In the face of a Code Orange, a mass casualty event, the call resounds across EMS responders and security forces. However, it is the United Hatzalah volunteers who arrive first, positioning themselves at the forefront of aid.
How do we achieve such swift action? Through the symphony of United Hatzalah’s iconic ambucycles, our cutting-edge communication framework, and trailblazing GPS technology. This fusion empowers our volunteers to consistently appear within minutes of pressing emergencies
LOGIS CAD SYSTEM
United Hatzalah adopted the Logis Computerized Assisted Dispatch (CAD) system to accelerate resource dispatch and expedite patient care.
Through our partnership with Elbit, a trailblazing military tech provider, we were able to transform smartphones into walkie-talkies. Using the ground breaking PTT (push-to-talk) over cellular radio systems, we can instantly connect 200 radio channels to enhance coordination with first responder dispatchers.
We also rely on the Carbyne app to streamline dispatch and coordination. Carbyne assesses geolocation and camera data from callers’ phones or from our field volunteers’ devices. Our dispatchers can pinpoint locations and guide the caller through vital first aid steps while simultaneously dispatching resources.
Using this technology, United Hatzalah volunteers have responded to more than six million urgent calls. We will continue to innovate on our technology foundation, so every person in Israel receives emergency care without delay.
Who is closest, geographically, to the scene?
Who has the highest level of training based on the situation at hand?
Who has the best equipment for this particular urgent call?
How is the volunteer traveling: by foot, car, ambucycle?
RUGGEAR COMMUNICATION DEVICES:
- Ensures the fastest communication any time, in any place.
- Withstands dust, rain, heat and severe impacts.
- Push To Talk interface for urgent communication.
- Automated dispatch integration via a specially developed AI dispatching system for fastest response.
- Scratch, shatter and water resistant.
- Video interface to stream from the scene in real time.
- GPS and way finding apps to identify where the emergency is happening and the quickest way to get there.
Our Equipment & Vehicles
Specially designed for children and infants, this bag valve mask manual resuscitator is used when performing lifesaving CPR or in cases of severe respiratory distress.
Child Resuscitation Kits
Specially designed for children and infants, this bag valve mask manual resuscitator is used when performing lifesaving CPR or in cases of severe respiratory distress.
Oxygen tanks are used by our volunteers over 600 times daily to revive victims experiencing respiratory distress, cardiac emergencies and more. Equipped with an oxygen tank, regulator, masks, and refill, this kit provides the breath of life when it’s needed most.
Lifesaving Oxygen Kit
Oxygen tanks are used by our volunteers over 600 times daily to revive victims experiencing respiratory distress, cardiac emergencies and more. Equipped with an oxygen tank, regulator, masks, and refill, this kit provides the breath of life when it’s needed most.
Provides critical protection to volunteers so that they can respond safely in high-risk environments.
Bulletproof Vest & Helmet
Provides critical protection to volunteers so that they can respond safely in high-risk environments.
Provides volunteers with the ability to analyze a patient’s heart rhythm and deliver an electrical shock (defibrillation) during cardiac arrest. .
Defibrillator (AED)
Provides volunteers with the ability to analyze a patient’s heart rhythm and deliver an electrical shock (defibrillation) during cardiac arrest. .
Our compact Trauma Kits hold all the equipment needed to treat patients with knife, gunshot, or shrapnel wounds ― including an assortment of specialized bandages and Leatherman raptor scissors ― for whom every second is critical for survival and recovery.
Trauma Kits
Our compact Trauma Kits hold all the equipment needed to treat patients with knife, gunshot, or shrapnel wounds ― including an assortment of specialized bandages and Leatherman raptor scissors ― for whom every second is critical for survival and recovery.
Recruit, train, equip and operate a new volunteer medic for one year. Each United Hatzalah volunteer responds to an average of 20 emergencies monthly, assisting 240+ individuals annually for years to come – a great ROI on your gift!
Train and Equip a New Volunteer
Recruit, train, equip and operate a new volunteer medic for one year. Each United Hatzalah volunteer responds to an average of 20 emergencies monthly, assisting 240+ individuals annually for years to come – a great ROI on your gift!
Rapid-response car enabling volunteers to go about their daily routine while carrying vital medical equipment.
Ambucar
Rapid-response car enabling volunteers to go about their daily routine while carrying vital medical equipment.
Innovative motorcycle ambulance that enables volunteers to bypass traffic congestion, roadworks, and narrow streets, helping bring us closer to our 90-second response goal.
Emergency Response Ambucycle
Innovative motorcycle ambulance that enables volunteers to bypass traffic congestion, roadworks, and narrow streets, helping bring us closer to our 90-second response goal.
All-terrain vehicle designed to maneuver tough mountainous, beach, and desert terrain, carrying advanced medical and search and rescue equipment.
Rescue ATV – Ambutractor
All-terrain vehicle designed to maneuver tough mountainous, beach, and desert terrain, carrying advanced medical and search and rescue equipment.
Rapid-response aluminum bike equipped for emergency care, improving maneuverability in busy downtown corridors and bringing us closer to our 90-second response goal.
Rapid Response E-Bike
Rapid-response aluminum bike equipped for emergency care, improving maneuverability in busy downtown corridors and bringing us closer to our 90-second response goal.
Provides a responder with the essential tools needed to begin lifesaving treatment immediately upon arrival.
Medic Bag & Defibrillator
Provides a responder with the essential tools needed to begin lifesaving treatment immediately upon arrival.
Provides volunteers with real-time emergency alerts, helps navigate to emergencies, and coordinates response between dispatch and responders.
Dispatch & Communication Device
Provides volunteers with real-time emergency alerts, helps navigate to emergencies, and coordinates response between dispatch and responders.
Provides critical treatment for life-threatening allergic reactions.
EpiPen – set of 1 (pair)
Provides critical treatment for life-threatening allergic reactions.
Innovative sturdy motorcycle ambulance that allows volunteers to bypass traffic congestion, roadworks, and narrow streets to reach victims. It is particularly suited for traveling long distances at high speeds.
Heavy Ambucycle
Innovative sturdy motorcycle ambulance that allows volunteers to bypass traffic congestion, roadworks, and narrow streets to reach victims. It is particularly suited for traveling long distances at high speeds.
Ambulance equipped with advanced medical gear to enable medics, paramedics, and doctors to treat, stabilize, and transport patients to the nearest medical facility without delay, all at no cost to the patient.
Advanced Ambulance
Ambulance equipped with advanced medical gear to enable medics, paramedics, and doctors to treat, stabilize, and transport patients to the nearest medical facility without delay, all at no cost to the patient.
