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Minnesota’s new Office of Emergency Medical Services reports transition progress, outlines grant spending and pilots
Summary
Director of the newly created Minnesota Office of Emergency Medical Services told the Health Finance and Policy Committee the office has completed its January 1 transition, distributed $24 million in one-time aid, posted a state EMS medical director job and is standing up two pilot programs funded by the last session.
Director John Ferguson, head of the Minnesota Office of Emergency Medical Services, told the House Health Finance and Policy Committee on Feb. 24 that the office completed its transition from the former EMS regulatory board to a state agency effective Jan. 1 and is focusing on maintaining service continuity while implementing new programs.
Ferguson said the omnibus EMS bill passed at the end of the last legislative session created the new office and moved regulatory operations into a traditional agency structure, with the agency head now appointed by the governor. “One of the biggest changes of that organization structure is where the agency head appoints to, reports to,” Ferguson said. He described three divisions in the office — ambulance services, EMS providers, and EMS physicians — each with a required deputy director and advisory council. All…
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