About Oakes Ambulance

The Oakes Ambulance Service

About Oakes Ambulance

This page is dedicated to our staff who dedicate much of their time to treat the sick and injured of the Oakes and surrounding communities.

Our Philosophy

The Oakes Volunteer Ambulance Service strives to provide the best possible care to our sick and injured patients in the most competant and caring manner.

We also value the importance of continuing training and education to not only our staff but also to that of our surrounding communities.

Our Service:

We provide both Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) to the citizens of Oakes and surrounding area including: Fullerton, Ludden and Crete. Through our intercept program we provide ALS care to the communities of Forman, Lamoure, Lidgerwood, Milnor and Edgeley. We operate four rigs, all of which are equipped to ALS capacity. In the year 2008 the Oakes Ambulance had a call volume of 412 runs, an increase from 2007, which we performed 376 calls. Not only providing emergency services, the Oakes Ambulance provides transfers from the Oakes medical facilities to other healthcare facilities in primarily Fargo and Aberdeen, but also Jamestown, Lisbon, Bismarck and Minneapolis.

2005 Staff of Oakes Ambulance

CPR

Drivers

First

Responders

   EMT

Basics

EMT

Intermediates

RN's and

Paramedics

Cory Dinger

Karla Hoelscher

Marke Roberts

Chase Breitbach

Luke Furlong

Maren Geffre

Jeremy Hill

Ken Hoelscher

Lance Kohlmeyer

Casey Muckenhirn

Sham Sandy

Steph Voightman

Tracy Voightman

Arlyne Buro

Kris Conklin

Danielle Dinger

Lori Domine

Emily Larson

Emma Mann

Pat Nelson

Nathan O'Brien

Michelle Renken

ReNae Roney

Diane Sandy

Lyndsey Smith

Alicia Schmitz

Deb Thompson

Shawn Carlson

Liesa Hill

Steve Konkler

Diane Swanson

Katherine Henninger RN/EMT

Sherry Maly RN/EMT

Curt Halmrast Paramedic

Steve Thompson Paramedic

Mike Sandy, Manager/Paramedic

Dr. Rupkumar Nagala

Medical Director

2009 Partial Squad Picture

Missing many....but in EMS full pictures are near impossible!

Our Staff:

We currently are staffed with 3 CPR-Drivers, 9 First Responders, 14 EMT-Basics, 5 EMT-Intermediates, 2 EMT-B/RN and 3 EMT-Paramedics. Our staff is nearly 90% volunteer. We are also assisted by members of the Oakes Fire Department on occasion. The First Responders and EMT-B's provide care that is outlined in the DOT curriculum, the EMT-I's can provide the same care, plus: IV's access, advanced airway management, cardiac monitoring and administration of dextrose. The EMT-P's can also provide that similar care, along with: administration of medications, cardioversion, chest decompression and advanced airway. Our Medical Director is Dr. Rup Nagala.