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Gila Regional Medical Center Emergency Medical Services EMTs Laurie Tavonatti and Alyssa Bell check supplies inside their favorite ambulance, EMS 2803, on Tuesday, after a particularly busy night of service calls and patient transfers. Six two-person crews of EMTs and paramedics work each shift at Gila Regional’s EMS station and substations.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Grant County’s first responders are busier than ever this year and unlike most other professionals, those employed in EMS, law enforcement and as firefighters don’t get a break for the holidays. Because patients who would normally have been admitted to the now-shuttered Gila Regional Medical Center Behavioral Health Unit are now transferred elsewhere, as far away as Albuquerque or Las Vegas, N.M., as well as due to an influx of COVID-19 patients all in addition to the usual number of trauma, stroke and other patients who need to go to Gila Regional Medical Center o