Task force: Regional ambulance hubs for South Dakota will take years to establish

By: John Hult

Outlets: South Dakota Searchlight

Published: September 22, 2026

Words: 1,358

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 3 days ago

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Regionalizing ambulance services would preserve them for rural areas and allow the state to guarantee a basic level of coverage, but the state would still need to pick up some of the cost of that guarantee, members of a legislative task force said this week.

What regional service looks like and what the state might have to pay to prop it up are still open questions.

Those were the takeaways from …

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