The County Seat looks at rural EMS
Last year there was a big push by EMS directors to bring the issue of losing volunteers and needing funding for EMS to the legislature. There was a lot of work done and several bills that came out of this effort. Then COVID-19 hit and the state had to go back and make cuts to the budget. This cut funding for HB389 in half (about $1.5 Million for EMS funding).
This week on the County Seat they looked at Representative Dan Johnson s effort to codify EMS as an essential service and what legislators are considering for 2021 to solve the rural EMS problem.