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Essential EMS describes expanded rural coverage, ECMO pilot and staffing strategies during FY2025 report to Pine County
Summary
Essential EMS told the Pine County Board it responded to high call volumes locally, described staffing and training investments, and previewed new clinical initiatives including a field-activated ECMO pilot with Lifelink and prehospital antibiotics for sepsis.
A representative of Essential EMS presented the service’s FY2025 report to the Pine County Board, outlining operations across a large I‑35 service area and new clinical and staffing initiatives. The presenter said the organization covers much of Pine County from four permanent bases (Moose Lake, Sandstone, Hinkley and Pine City), staffs 21 paramedics and about 30 EMTs locally, and conducts roughly 4,900–6,000 local responses in recent reporting windows depending on the metric reported.
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