Emergency management makes push for county Emergency Medical Services counsel

Jim Lester, Wright County emergency management coordinator and president of the county’s Emergency Medical Services Association, gave a presentation to the board of supervisors on Monday and recommended the formation of an EMS advisory council in order to be proactive about following state requirements and to give elected officials financial authority.

“This is not about taking over an ambulance service,” Lester said. “It’s about improving the services we already have.”

Lester said the advisory board should include a director, members from each of the EMS services in the county and representatives from other emergency services, the board of health, city administrations, township trustees, and hospital administration. “My goal would be to have a meeting in December, and hopefully start with the first of the year with monthly meetings,” Lester said, adding that the meetings might be quarterly in the future.

For more about the EMS counsel (and other business conducted at the supervisor's meeting), see the November 19 edition of the Monitor.