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<br />WS – Item 6 <br /> <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item 6 <br /> <br /> <br />Date: May 4, 2020 <br /> <br />To: City Council <br /> <br />From: John Swenson, Public Safety Director <br /> <br />Re: Ambulance Service - Update <br /> <br /> <br />Background <br /> <br />Staff continues to work on ensuring that ambulance services in Lino Lakes are provided <br />at a high level after the June 1, 2020 ambulance service transition. As part of that process <br />we have provided information to Council at several meetings on this issue. Attached to <br />this staff report are staff reports from December 2, 2019, December 9, 2019, and March <br />2, 2020 along with Council Resolution 19-176. <br /> <br />Since those staff reports were written staff attended the Emergency Medical Services <br />Regulatory Board (EMSRB) Executive Board Meeting on April 16, 2020. The EMSRB <br />continues to work on determining whether the change in ambulance services in our <br />Primary Service Area (PSA) will go through the change of ownership process as outlined <br />in MN 144E.11 or a change of name process as outlined in the same statute. <br /> <br />Staff has learned that the entire City of Lino Lakes is covered by what the EMSRB refers <br />to as “PSA overlap”. This means that when the PSA maps were created two ambulance <br />providers own a PSA that covers our community. We know that MHealth Fairview <br />(formally Fairview) as well as Allina Ambulance own a PSA that includes Lino Lakes. <br />This has occurred in other areas of the state and when there is ambulance PSA overlap <br />the local jurisdiction has the ability to choose between the ambulance providers that own <br />the PSAs covering their community. I have attached two maps (Anoka County – Allina <br />#0057 and Anoka County – Forest Lake #0084) obtained from the EMSRB which show <br />this overlap. <br /> <br />Dating back to April of 2019, staff has met with both MHealth Fairview and Allina to <br />gain the needed information on their respective ambulance services, medical dispatching <br />capabilities, medical direction, and available EMS training for our staff. <br /> <br />Staff is recommending that we move forward with Allina Ambulance service effective <br />June 1, 2020. <br /> <br />• Allina has a long standing operation in Anoka County with many positive <br />comments regarding their ambulance services from other Anoka County <br />jurisdictions currently being serviced by Allina Ambulance.