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January, 2024
Mauston Area Ambulance Expands!
On January 1, 2024, we expanded our
service area. After the fall of another
local ambulance service, we had nine
additional municipalities sign on with us.
We now provide care for 20,566 people and
visitors to the area. With this expansion,
we added an additional staffed ambulance and
a second station. We now cover the City of
New Lisbon, the Village of Hustler, the
Village of Necedah, and the Townships of
Armenia, Cutler, Finley, Fountain, Necedah,
and Orange.
With this, we also added a second station to
provide quicker responses to our new, larger
service area. This second station is located
in the Village of Necedah, at the Necedah
Public Safety Building. Currently a single
staffed Paramedic Ambulance and a
non-staffed Reserve Ambulance are housed at
this station. Though this station has a
smaller crew, it has most of the same
amenities that are present at our Mauston
Station, including a training and meeting
room, large garage bay area, storage rooms,
individual bunk rooms, a full kitchen,
showers, and a climate controlled secure
medical supply room.
December, 2023
Mauston Area Ambulance Blesses their third
staffed ambulance.
Due to an
upcoming expansion of service area, Mauston
Area Ambulance purchased and is going to
staff a third ambulance full time. This
additional ambulance to the fleet takes the
total ambulance fleet count to five, with
one administrative/support SUV as well. As
is our tradition over the years, we held a
blessing ceremony for this new ambulance. A
big thank you to Dakota Blackdeer and
Reverend Jeff Fairchild for helping us.
December, 2020
Mauston Area Ambulance obtained two LUCAS
Mechanical CPR devices.
The LUCAS is designed to provide high quality, consistent compressions using a mechanical device to patients in cardiac arrest. When we have patients in cardiac arrest, we stay on the scene and perform procedures and provide medications that the Emergency Room performs. This is great for patients, as they receive high performance CPR and pertinent interventions very quickly and consistently, regardless if we are five minutes in or 30 minutes in to efforts.
We are grateful that we work with some great first responder agencies, as well as often receive amazing assistance from or local law enforcement officers and area Fire Departments for some of our critical patients. But sometimes these resources are not available. This new device allows our crews to transition from high quality manual compressions to automated mechanical compressions, freeing up one provider to perform additional tasks, as well as prevent fatigue and poor compressions as we continue efforts to restart the patient’s heart.
Likewise, this device continues with our efforts to match equipment with what is available at our local hospital, Mile Bluff Medical Center. Earlier in the year we acquired new video laryngoscopes, the same kind that the hospital use, and now this device. This allows cross-familiarization of equipment if we need to assist the hospital staff, if they need to assist us upon arrival, or if one of the ER Physicians happen upon one of our scenes.
Friday, March 2nd,
2018
Mauston Area Ambulance began a new tradition
of Blessing our newly received ambulance
