Charter and Organization

The Town of Harvard Ambulance Service (The Service) was founded in 1972 to provide emergency medical care and hospital transport to the Town’s residents and visitors. The ambulance is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and is staffed by volunteer, paid per-call, Emergency Medical Technicians.

The Harvard Ambulance Service plays a critical role in the Town’s emergency services, and works in cooperation with the Harvard Police and Fire Departments as well as the Nashoba Valley Dispatch District. Although Service members are unpaid, they are official employees of the Town of Harvard. Patients who are residents of the Town of Harvard are never billed directly. The Service operates one ambulance, designated Harvard 13A, which is licensed at the Basic Life Support level by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS). Advanced Life Support services, when required, are provided by private and municipal Paramedics under service agreements with the Town of Harvard, who work in close conjunction with the Harvard EMTs. The Service is headquartered at 40 Ayer Road, in the Town of Harvard Public Safety Building.

We are always looking for kind, hardworking, dedicated people to help out! There are various ways to get involved for those that are interested in volunteering with Harvard Ambulance.

NOTE: At this point, we are focused on recruiting from our primary response area and the towns immediately surrounding it. We are affiliated with the town of Harvard MA, in Worcester County, not Harvard University.