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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.

We have a unique connection and close affilitation with Ringdahl EMS with headquarters in Fergus Falls, MN. Randy Fischer serves full-time 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 partnership and relationship with Ringdahl EMS. Para-Corp-all risk medical management services, disaster strike team deployment, disaster response, remote medical contracts, international teaching assignments, and an accredited Paramedic education program through Emergency Training Associates are an example of the wide span organizational networking that have been created.

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

About Us

Stevens County Ambulance and EMS Training is currently managed by director, Josh Fischer, EMT-P. The EMS education programs are managed by a full-time training coordinator, Bob Griffith, EMT IC. The President and CEO of the organization is Randall Fischer, BA, EMT-P who has been involved in EMS for over 32 years and began working with Stevens County ambulance service in the fall of 1978. He became ambulance administrator of the county owned hospital BLS ambulance department in January 1979.

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 supply of personnel for the area healthcare providers.