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Webster County adopts EMS essential‑service plan, votes to create EMS coordinator position
Summary
After months of advisory work, the Webster County Board of Supervisors approved an EMS essential‑service plan, a 28E template for interagency agreements and the creation of a county EMS coordinator position to help stabilize staffing, billing and training for local ambulance and first‑responder services.
The Webster County Board of Supervisors voted Sept. 23 to adopt an EMS essential‑service plan recommended by the county’s EMS advisory council, approve a 28E template to guide interagency service agreements and authorize creation of a county EMS coordinator position subject to human‑resources review.
Matt Price, Fort Dodge fire chief and a member of the EMS advisory council, told the board the recommendations respond to a multiyear effort to stabilize local emergency medical services. “Patient care is the number 1 priority of this whole thing,” Price said, summarizing the council’s mission and the rationale for creating a countywide structure to manage funding, training and equipment.
Price said the council’s initial budget…
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