Altru's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) staff takes pride in the delivery of quality service to our customers whether they require emergency, urgent or elective cares. The number one priority for our...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Altru Health System is a community of over 4,000 health professionals and support staff committed to caring for the region for more than 100 years. We look to continually extend our mission of...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Kayla Odegard, MD, is an emergency medicine physician at Altru Health System. In the emergency department, Dr Odegard treats a wide variety of conditions including strokes, colds, infections, heart...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Altru Health System is a community of over 4,000 health professionals and support staff committed to caring for the region for more than 100 years. We look to continually extend our mission of...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Leah Gustafson Ista, MD, MSPH is an emergency medicine physician at Altru Health System. Dr Gustafson Ista's special practices and procedures include ultrasound imaging, trauma care, procedural...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Pablo Lizardi, MD specializes in emergency medicine. Altru Health System is a community of over 4,000 health professionals and support staff committed to caring for the region for more than 100 years....
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Dr Paul German is an emergency medicine physician at Altru and finds it gratifying to provide care for truly sick patients, especially the patients in which interventions in the emergency department...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Dr Samuel Lohstreter is a member of the emergency medicine team at Altru. He specializes in airway management, fracture/joint reduction and splinting, cardioversion and trauma/critical care. He is...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Altru Health System is a community of over 4,000 health professionals and support staff committed to caring for the region for more than 100 years. We look to continually extend our mission of...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Tyler Wernecke, MD specializes in Internal Medicine. Tyler is passionate about quality care and is inspired every day to strive to be a better physician and person. Outside of work, Tyler enjoys...
Grand Forks (ND) - - Phone: (701) 780-5000
Emergency Medical Services are provided in Grand Forks as out-of-hospital cute care, transport to a place where more specialized care is available, and other medical transport to patients with illnesses and injuries which prevent the patient from transporting themselves. This is given with the aim of providing urgent medical care to a satisfactory level. If it is a publicly owned EMS, it is operated by the Grand Forks municipality, which may be the responsibility of the local or the state government. For small communities, they are staffed by volunteers. Private EMS organizations also exists in some parts of the country. Usually, the physicians or the surgeon does not respond directly to the emergency, unless the patient is a low-weight infant, or there is necessity of an emergency cardiac bypass surgery, or a mass casualty situation. There is, however, medical control by indirect supervision of a medical director, or board-certified physician who oversees the policies and protocols of a particular EMS system. In America, the model is to bring the patient to the hospital rather than the other way around. While there is no federal or state stanard for response time, they do sometimes exist in the form of contractual obligations between communities and EMS provider organizations. Ideal response time is less than ten minutes, however, this is rarely achieved. The ambulances used for EMS can be of varying types depending on the specific needs.
