WEBSTER—North Memorial’s Wisconsin ambulance operations has recently celebrated 20 years of service to the people it serves in Burnett and Washburn counties. “In an effort to celebrate our 20 years of service, we have elected to focus our efforts at educating and informing the people in the communities we serve with regular communications that inform the public about who we are and what it is we do” stated Joe Walsh, manager for North Memorial’s Wisconsin ambulance operations”.  

About North Memorial

North Memorial has provided more than 50 years of service to communities in the northwestern Twin Cities metro and currently has more than 5,000 employees. North Memorial includes North Memorial Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center and North Memorial Ambulance, which operates 120 ground ambulances and eight helicopters located throughout Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin.

In addition to being recognized for its outstanding emergency and trauma services, North Memorial is recognized for its heart and stroke care, oncology services, women and children’s services and numerous primary care and specialty clinics located throughout the northwest metro. 

This year, North Memorial Health Care was rated No. 1 in Minnesota for overall Cardiac Care and is among the top five percent in overall cardiac care in the nation for the third year in a row (2008-2010) according to a comprehensive annual study released today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. The HealthGrades study annually assesses patient outcomes — mortality and complication rates — at virtually all of the nation’s nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals.

Why is the award that North Memorial received important to the residents of Burnett and Washburn Counties? According to Walsh, “the excellent quality that North Memorial provides does not end at the doors of the hospital; it extends to the ambulance service and all of our staff. We receive our medical direction, training and structure from one of the highest ranked hospitals in cardiac care and a level one trauma center which has been in the ambulance business for nearly 50 years.” North Memorial Ambulance provides ambulance service in numerous rural communities and northern Hennepin County in Minnesota in addition to providing service in Northwestern Wisconsin.