01/31/2026
Good morning Eureka ! Todd here with a Saturday morning greeting and discussion on matters that are if interest to us all here in the community. As I have stated before, I will be posting regularly on here to boost not just the open lines of communication between EVAS but to reach out and connect with you all our beloved community. This town and surrounding areas have been a warm welcoming comfort to my family and we are so blessed to call this place home now. You all are resilient, open minded warm hearted and giving. With that said, Id like to thank you all and encourage you all to keep it up ! The services here that affect us all is our medical services, right ? You bet, and with comes the need for more understanding of what these services are who they are and how they do what they do. In regards to us here at EVAS, we provide a emergency ambulance service to the community. We are comprised of EMTs, AEMTs, drivers and Paramedics. What does all these letters mean you ask, well it means we offer a variety of highly skilled people who are dedicated to the preservation of life and limb 24 hrs a day 7 days a week. These folks can do the basic level of patient care all the way up to the advanced levels of pre hospital care under the guidelines of the state of Montana and National Registry Standards which is a nation wide set curriculum. We get call that range from falls to strokes, heart attacks, traumas, medical emergencies of every type. We are equipped and trained to deal with everything we come across. We have resources such as other agencies for help ALERT helicopter for quick skilled transports when time and higher level of care is needed such as strokes, burns, trauma's and advanced cardiac issues. We see the good and the bad and take it all in stride, I can assure you we are dedicated to this service and its not just a job, title or status symbol for us we live and breath this life. Remember, we are part of you , the community, we are family, friends neighbor's, colleagues and most of all humans like each and every one of you. Please know we are only one part of the support system we all have here available to us, we have other Health care providers here and locally we rely on.
I think it is very important that we as clinicians to make our service more transparent to all of you. With that said, we are moving forward with plans to do just that, keep you informed, offer help in any way we can, promote better health clean living. We will be announcing more of this in the near future so stay tuned! This is a sneak peek..............
This brings me to todays topic, my goal here is to clear the air so to speak on a few issues and rumors roaming our community. As you know we are a Volunteer organization, another words, we do not have staff in the building 24 hours a day ready when the call comes in. We rely on our volunteer staff to drop what ever it is they are doing to and answer said call. Did you know we run over 600 calls a year ???? What ? that's a lot of calls right? Well yes it sure is. Yes, we run a lot of calls and yes there are calls that do go un answered.....this has been a topic of discussion in many meetings here and in the community. It is hard to respond to every call we simply do the very best we can but please know we care about every call, patient and outcome. We take this all very seriously and the future of this department is to always always always be moving forward in training, recruitment of new personnel, acquisition of the latest greatest equipment from iv sets to ambulances in a never ending effort to provide all we can to the community.
This takes dedication that swells my heart with pride to be a part of, to see our staff get it done is awe inspiring and please know, we are committed to your health and well being. Did you know you can be a part of us here ? We can train you, guide you and help you flourish in your journey to give back to your community which in the end helps us make our ultimate goal of no call going unanswered...... The costs of doing what we do is mind boggling, but it has to be done period. So remember when the call comes in there are folks scrambling to make the call, any time of day in any weather. We are here, come see us, be involved and informed on what we do even if you are unable to help, stop in and see us and see what we do come to our meetings meet the people here see what it is we do and know we are only a call away. Have a great day enjoy the weather see ya soon ....Todd
