Rural ambulance services understaffed throughout Minnesota I KMSP FOX 9

As rural populations age, calls have gone up for ambulance services, now totaling more than double compared to the past couple decades.

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[danielcole]

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[msgottaneedtoknow]

I can vouch for that. Our rural ambulance service is volunteers. You do get a set amount IF you do go in calls but we cannot find enough people to do it. So many of us (my husband and I were on it for over eight years) were on call 24:7 and every week, all week. It was just to stressful. If you don’t respond or respond slowly, we are responsible. Then every call was at least four hours. We are about an hour away from all hospitals. We only have one ambulance, so if we are already on a call, there wasn’t someone close by to help. There has to be two EMT-b’s on each call or we cannot transport. At one point, we only had six to eight EMT’s to cover all shifts, day and night. The people on our service, are volunteers so they all have full time jobs as well. This doesn’t leave much time or available volunteers. We are always in danger of losing the ambulance service completely because it cannot run without a dependable crew.

[jackall-trades]

Urgent cares call for ambulances anyway. If there are fewer EMS personnel, did it ever occur to anyone that they could mitigate the problem by actually taking care of themselves? Novel concept.