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WS – Item 8 <br />WORK SESSION STAFF REPORT <br />Work Session Item 8 <br />Date: March 2, 2020 <br />To: City Council <br />From: John Swenson, Public Safety Director <br />Re: Ambulance Service - Update <br />Background <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 provide information to Council at several meetings on this issue. Attached to <br />this staff report are staff reports from December 2, 2019 and December 9, 2019 along <br />with Council Resolution 19-176. <br />Since those staff reports were written staff has attended Emergency Medical Services <br />Regulatory Board (EMSRB) Board Meeting on January 16, 2020 and EMSRB Executive <br />Board Meeting on December 19, 2019 and February 20, 2020. The EMSRB continues to <br />work on determining whether the change in ambulance services in our Primary Service <br />Area (PSA) will go through the change of ownership process as outlined in MN 144E.11 <br />or a change of name process as outlined in the same statute. <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. <br />Staff continues to meet with both MHealth Fairview and Allina to gain the needed <br />information on their respective ambulance services, medical dispatching capabilities, <br />medical direction, and available EMS training for our staff. <br />Staff hopes to have all of the information to make an informed recommendation to <br />Council this spring prior to the June 1, 2020 transition. <br />Attachments <br />Staff Report from December 9, 2019 with Council Resolution 19-176 <br />Staff Report from December 2, 2019