Brooks Ambulance to receive $1.65 million for facilities and equipment
Brooks Ambulance among recipients
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Brooks Ambulance among recipients
Low pay, employee retention and insufficient federal reimbursement has left much Greater Minnesota with unacceptably slow emergency response times -- up to 90 minutes in some places.
Sen. Grant Hauschild answered questions about his top legislative priorities and why he will not support a proposed bill to stop Minnesota cops from enforcing federal civil immigration law.
A few dozen people joined members of rural ambulance and EMS as they discussed the problems facing the industry.
“We had one call, [the dispatcher called] 23 agencies, and no ambulance was available. To the point where the dispatcher called the house back and said, ‘We’ve got nothing. You have to find your own way to the hospital.’"