RESCATE provides emergency first aid medical care and ambulance service to San Carlos residents and visitors alike. The bi-lingual staff is on 24-hour call, and professionally trained in advanced and basic life support, CPR, first aid, and special rescue and transportation techniques. RESCATE has its own premises including a well equipped emergency first-aid treatment room, which is supported by three fully equipped ambulances. It is not a medical clinic but a doctor is always on call for a fee or patients can be directed to a physician of their choice. 
Now in its fourth decade of operation, RESCATE first opened in 1978 in a single donated room with two volunteers using a converted personal van for an ambulance. RESCATE is a Mexican nonprofit corporation, governed by an elected Board of Directors, all volunteers and residents of San Carlos. RESCATE is entirely self-supporting and is funded through memberships, donations and the activities of the RESCATE auxiliary. RESCATE is also recognized as a nonprofit organization by the IRS and all contributions are fully deductible.
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