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Late 1970s – 2005 · The record stands whole in the fire and safety file
The division: The fullest practice advance in Mishawaka's record is a prehospital one, and its record stands whole in the fire and safety file of this build, which owns it: Mayor Margaret Prickett founded the city's ambulance service in the late 1970s, out of the police-wagon era of drivers with little training beyond first aid; Michael Hargreaves, then Memorial Hospital's EMS coordinator, was hired to build and run it — an initial staff of six emergency medical technicians, hospital-to-ambulance radio, and Hargreaves himself as Mishawaka's first paramedic, at the head of what the city's history calls, in De Kever's judgment, "a highly effective paramedicine program that became a model for other cities." He retired in 2005, the service by then merged into the fire department, where the city's EMS division stands today with its personnel cross-trained and every vehicle carrying a semi-automatic defibrillator. This section carries the entry at pointer size by the settled division of the build — the advancement is named here because a medical-advancements file that omitted the city's one exported model of care would misstate the record; its evidence, measures and course are the fire and safety file's, and are not re-dug.
Sources:
- The fire and safety file of this build (the ambulance and EMS record whole, with its sources: De Kever's city history; the South Bend Tribune of 7 February 2016; the 2018 IAFF Local 360 agreement; the city's own announcements).