Between 15 and 20 of EMServ’s 70 employees contracted COVID-19 over the last year, but it never stopped them from serving Jones County — even if the pandemic meant more hours transporting patients to far-away hospitals, sometimes out of state.

Clearly, some things have changed. Workers didn’t have to wear masks to every call before. Hospital bed availability was among the most impacted areas in the medical community. That led ambulance workers to transporting many patients “wherever they were available,” said Wyth Collins, EMServ director.

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