ROSEBUD-SIOUX TRIBAL EMS.

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SOMETIME IN THE 1960s....

• The Rosebud-Sioux tribe founded the first ever Tribal EMS service in the United States
• Started out with roughly 23 nurse trained "medics"
• Only 3 vehicles to respond to emergencies
• In its primitive years, funding was hard to find and equipment even more difficult to
• come by.

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LETS FAST FORWARD A BIT........

2013

50 YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT...

• Since starting out as a mostly volunteer service,
• With little equipment and even less respect from the outside medical community
• This Tribal EMS service has grown into a forward thinking, modern day protocol provider
• With access to better technology and continuing education opportunities.
• Unfortunately, so many Native EMS services were (& a few still are) are lacking in

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• funding.
• When working on a reservation, often the seclusion from the outside world
• Can be to blame.
• On reservations, access to trauma facilities can be limited, depending on location
• Some Reservations are lucky enough to have a bird in the area, other wise they

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• Provide critical, life saving care to their PTs,
• And subsequently transfer that patient 500 miles to the nearest hospital.