Welcome

Stevens County Ambulance Service is an Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulance company located in Morris, MN. All levels of medical transportation services including critical care ALS inter-facility patient transfers primarily from Stevens Community Medical Center and area hospital are provided. The service maintains five ALS equipped ambulances along with a staff of five full-time personnel and twenty part-time EMTs and Paramedics. ALS intercept for surrounding BLS services in Pope, Grant, Swift, Big Stone, and Traverse counties are provided when requested.

The primary service area is approximately 1080 square miles and 911 EMS dispatch is through the Stevens County Law Enforcement Center 911 communications center in Morris.

Two physicians share responsibilities as medical director. Dr. Michael Busian, MD is medical director, and Dr. Chris Wanner, MD is associate medical director for the service. They are affiliated with Stevens Community Medical Center in Morris, and Prairie Ridge Hospital and Health Services. Our physicians provide medical direction, education, run review discussions, and skills verification for our staff and area EMS personnel.

Stevens County Ambulance and EMS Education offices are located at 209 South US Highway 9 in Morris.

EMS Week 2012

During EMS week we recognize the important service that all of our First Responders, EMT's, Paramedics, Physicians, Nurses, Dispatchers, Law Enforcement, Fire, and emergency personnel provide to our communities. Equally important is the role of the community members in working in partnership with our EMS agencies to provide the highest level of care and know what to do in the first critical minutes in an emergency.

Ringdahl EMS and Stevens County EMS in conjunction with the SCAA-Western MN Chapter, are providing a FREE Hands-Only CPR and AED classes at five of their locations in Minnesota and North Dakota as part of EMS Week 2012. The ambulance companies are providing instructors, refreshments, and equipment to train the public in Hands-Only CPR and how to use an AED.

FREE Hands-Only CPR and AED - Wednesday May 23, 2012 from 7:00 - 8:00 PM at these locations:

Morris, MN at Stevens County EMS - 209 S Hy 9.
Fergus Falls, MN at Ringdahl Ambulance - 214 East Junius Ave.
Pelican Rapids, MN at Ringdahl Ambulance - 41 1st St SW
Jamestown, ND at Jamestown Ambulance - 502 1st Ave S
Lisbon, ND at First Medic Ambulance - 1100 Oak Street

In addition, Ringdahl EMS and Stevens County EMS have donated a new Philips OnSite Automatic External Defibrillator and will give it away to a lucky participant at one of the class locations. To be eligible: you must LIKE US on facebook, attend the training on May 23, 2012 at one of the five locations, sign up at 7:00 PM for the drawing, and you MUST be present at 8:00 PM for the drawing to win. Even if you do not win the AED, you still win because you learned a life-saving skill and may just save someones life! Everyone should learn CPR and how to use an AED.

 

About Us

Stevens County Ambulance and EMS Training is managed locally by a full-time director, Josh Fischer, EMT-P. He oversees day to day management, operations, human resources, scheduling, billing, licensing, education, and community activities. His close connections with community agencies and officials provides a well integrated EMS system of care with area emergency services and healthcare providers. In addition to ALS ambulance services, Stevens EMS provides high quality EMS education programs to West Central Minnesota for over 30 years. SCEMS provides classes to aproximately 3,000 people annually in the various education programs ranging from community and business basic CPR, AED and first aid certification, to more advanced in-hospital courses such as ACLS and PALS for physicians, nurses and paramedics. Our training coordinator is Bob Griffith, EMT/IC and he has over 25 year experience in EMS, is a retired firefighter, and previously worked in occupational health and safety for a large manuafacturing corporation. Bob is an experienced, knowledgeable, coordinator and provides excellence in educational programs for fire, EMS, law enforcement, business and industry.

Randall Fischer, BA, EMT-P serves as consultant and CEO of the organization. He has been involved in EMS for over 33 years, is a 22 year retired fireman, and excellent educator and public speaker. His involvement with the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Association and advocacy for CPR and AED training throughout the country has lead to many thousands of people trained, and lives saved. He developed and presents "How to Save a Life" (TM), presentations to high schools, community centers, government agencies, businesses and large corporations to simplify the message of the importance of everyone knowing how to do CPR and use an Automatic External Defibrillator (AED). He began working with Stevens County ambulance service in the fall of 1978 and transitioned the service through multiple system impovements, a building project and development of the highly acclamed EMS educational programs. He has assisted many rural ambulance communities with consulting and management contracting. He can be contacted at: rfischer@stevensems.com

The ambulance service works closely with each of the area first responder teams in Chokio, Donnelly, Hancock, Cyrus, Herman and Kensington. These teams are critical assets to the EMS system in the area and they provide exceptional care. The teams are dependent on volunteers in each of the community and these volunteers dedicate many hours of time training and responding to emergencies in their community. We appreciate their involvement and assistance. Together our services respond to aproximately 900 emergency 9-1-1 calls and transfers each year.

Morris is home to the University of Minnesota - Morris campus and the collaboration between the ambulance service and the University for over 30 years has provided UMM students with an opportunity to obtain Emergency Medical Technician certification, work experience, and income opportunities while attending classes at UMM. These highly motivated and exceptional university students provide the service with a steady resource of highly qualified and excellent personnel for the ambulance service and area healthcare providers.

We have a unique connection and affilitation with Ringdahl EMS with headquarters in Fergus Falls, MN. Randy Fischer serves as operations director for Ringdahl EMS - Minnesota and North Dakota. In addition, Mr. Fischer is President/CEO of Stevens County Ambulance and provides administrative oversite and management. Opportunities and career advancement for staff and area EMS personnel are available through our relationship with Ringdahl EMS. Another company affiliated with Ringdahl EMS is Para-Corp-all risk medical management services which provides disaster strike team deployments, disaster medical response, remote medical contract work, wildland firefighting medical support, and international teaching assignments. Ringdahl EMS also operates an accredited Paramedic education program through Emergency Training Associates with programs beginning each fall and running aproximately 13 months.