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Like much of the country, Sumner County is feeling the effects of a nationwide shortage of healthcare professionals like nurses, EMT’s and paramedics, EMS Director Greg Miller told members of the county’s Emergency Services Committee recently.
“We’re facing critical staffing issues. COVID has changed all of our lives,” said Miller. “It’s definitely changed the face of health care.”
The department that responds to medical calls across the county is short 14 full-time employees at a time when its call volume is the highest it’s been since the department’s inception in the early 1970’s.
“Our responses are out the roof,” said Miller, adding that each of the past five months has been the busiest the department has ever been with more than 2,300 response and transport calls a month….”
