ROCKPORT — North East Mobile Health Services, Maine's largest Emergency Medical Services provider, Jan. 18 announced the promotion of Ellie Adams to division manager at their Rockport EMS base. Adams will have the primary responsibility for overseeing the 911 and non-emergency responses in the Rockport area.

“I’m happy to be home,” said Adams Friday about her return to the Midcoast.

The Rockport base provides 911 EMS response and ambulance transportation to the communities of Camden, Hope, Lincolnville and Rockport, as well as mutual aid for surrounding towns. Additionally, the Rockport base provides critical care transport from Pen Bay Medical Center to larger hospitals, including Maine Medical Center in Portland, and Boston area hospitals.

Adams is a long time public safety professional and most recently, she has been an EMS supervisor at North East’s base in Scarborough. Adams has managed the staffing, resources, response and coordination of the daytime activities of more than a dozen ambulances.

In a news release, company officials said that Adams’ abilities to manage patient care, personnel, supply and overall management earned her the promotion. Additionally, as the Angel Program supervisor, Adams coordinated the activities of Maine's busiest neonatal and pediatric transport trucks, providing 24/7 coverage for some of Maine's most critical and delicate patients. Working with a hospital and EMS unified approach, the Angel program, under her guidance, has helped save the lives of countless ill children.

Adams also has deep ties to the Midcoast community, where she began as a firefighter at age 16 in Thomaston. Working in the fire and EMS service as a family, with her father, mother and brother, she learned the importance of public safety and community pride.

"We are excited to begin a new chapter and reinvigorate our commitment to the Midcoast area. By providing 911 and non-emergency transport, NEMHS is able to ensure the rapid response, assessment, and transport of patients to initial hospital care, and as needed, transportation of critical care patients to regional resource hospitals. Our care begins with the initial call for EMS, but ends only when we are able to ensure the citizens of the communities we serve are in the best facility possible to meet their needs. Ellie will help guide our course and react to the ever-changing needs of the Midcoast community," said North East EMS Chief Marc Minkler, in the release.