Page 14 Citizen-Tribune, June 25.

2016

By Ken Francis, Staff Writer

When CentraCare Emergency Services (EMS) opened

its operations center in Big
Lake in the former Big Lake
Police station last month, it
was a homecoming.
Thats because it used to
be the home of the local ambulance service.
The front part of this
building was the original ambulance garage the hospital
built, says
EMS Director
Gordy Vosberg. We housed
two van ambulances. When a
call came in, people would respond here, pick up an ambulance and go.
For years, the EMS unit
was located at the MonticelloBig Lake Hospital, says Vosberg. But it actually started in
Big Lake.
In 1965 or 1966, a couple in Big Lake, Joe and Doris
Cook, started what is our ambulance service, he says.
They operated out of their
home with Cadillac ambulances until about 1979 when
they sold the service to the
Monticello Hospital.
Vosberg was an EMS volunteer for a few years shortly
after the hospital bought the
service.
They moved the service
to Monticello and went from
on-call volunteers to paid fullstaffed rigs, says Vosberg.
They also went to advanced
life support.
With advanced life support allows, as opposed to

EMS Center in Big Lake

serving local communities

CENTRACARE EMS Director Gordy Vosberg (left) and Operations Supervisor

Frank Zinken outside the new operations center at the former Big Lake Police Station.

EMT Yvette Smith and paramedic Daren Hardies in

the crew's quarters at the operations center while waiting for their next call. (Photos by Ken Francis)

basic life support, paramedics

can do advanced cardiac interventions, minor surgical procedures and administer a much
broader spectrum of medications.
From the late 1980s
through 2007 the service was
run out of the Monticello Hospital.
Vosberg says he felt there
needed to be some EMS presence in Big Lake to cut down
on service call times.
One bridge connects our
primary service area, otherwise you have to go 12 miles
in either direction to move
across the river, says Vosberg.
He set up a meeting with
the Big Lake Fire Chief, who
was also concerned about rail

traffic in Big Lake blocking

ambulances. He offered us a
place in the fire station, he
says. At that point we kept
one crew in Monticello and
moved the other crew to Big
Lake.
The fire station had
garage bays for two ambulances and crews quarters.
Thats how the EMS operated
until last month when the old
police station near the corner
of Hwy. 25 and Hwy. 10 in Big
Lake became CentraCares
EMS Operations Center.
The fire station was a
nice setup. But what we
needed was a place to consolidate our operations. We had
trucks in three different locations and our supplies were in

various spots, says Vosberg.

This building sits almost in
the middle of our primary service are. Weve got major access east, west, north and
south. Were able to hit our
calls quite easily.
And there are plenty of
calls. From the start of the fiscal year (since July, 2015) the
EMS received 3,107 requests
for service, including 1,871 in
the Monticello area, 687 in the
Big Lake area and 401 in the
Becker area.
One of the things were
proud of is our response times.
We average 7.3 minutes, says
Vosberg.
In comparison, the Metro
Area standard is 90% within
11 minutes.
By pre-positioning these
trucks, you can really reduce
response times significantly,
says Vosberg. And a short response time save lives.
Vosberg says he started

looking at the building last August.

We toured the building
and quickly realized this was
the place we needed to be, he
says.
They closed on the building in late February and have
been reconditioning the site.
They removed an old break
room and an evidence locker,
added a garage door and
widened the other two doors
from nine to 10 feet. Now the
site can house multiple ambulances and has a crews quarters.
Each day the Monticello
crew picks up its ambulance
and heads across the river.
A third truck is also located at the Becker Fire Station
from noon until 8 p.m. to cover
the peak afternoon period.
One of the things thats
important to us is to maintain a
presence in all the communities in our primary service

area, he says. This started

out as a community volunteer
ambulance service with community members pulling together to cover emergencies.
Being part of the community also means participating in
local events.
We cover Music in the
Park, the Big Lake block party,
Spud Fest, the Big Lake Fire
open house, football games
and we give day care tours. We
want to give back to the community.
And sitting here in this
building, weve come full circle, says Vosberg. We started
in the building. We left the
building and were back
again.
Were really excited to
be back here.

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