Washington Ambulance Service Short Staffed

Washington Ambulance Service is looking at it’s options as they have been short staffed for quite some time now.  Options include contracting out to fill the open hours in the schedule, finding an EMT who would be cross trained as a city employee or contacting the Washington County Hospital to see if hospital nurses could help fill in.  There are currently 13 who staff the Washington Ambulance and 4-6 more people are needed to ease the shortages.  Finding training classes for new EMT’s, along with EMT instructors have been hard to find because of EMT licensing transitions.