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North Dakota makes the grade Though North Dakota has its fair share of obstacles to providing optimal patient care, the state excels in some areas. A 2014 report from the American College of Emergency Physicians entitled America’s Emergency Care Environment, A State-by-State Report Card credited North Dakota’s “solid performance” and ranked it eighth in the nation overall. The high ranking was mostly due to the state’s high grades in “Disaster Preparedness” and “Medical Liability Environment.” Where North Dakota lacked was in its grades for “Quality and Patient Safety Environment” and “Public Health and Injury Prevention.” “The state lacks funding for both an emergency medical services (EMS) medical director and quality improvement of the EMS system,” the report says. It continued: “North Dakota’s grade in ‘Access to Emergency Care’ reflects a mixture of positive and negative results... The state fares excellently regarding hospital capacity, with 514.3 staffed inpatient beds per 100,000 people and 37.2 emergency departments (ED) per one million people. ED wait times are third-best in the nation, averaging 189 minutes from ED arrival to ED departure for admitted patients.” The report recommended that North Dakota could improve its grade by funding an EMS medical director. Additionally, it could “consider legislation aimed at reducing traffic fatalities, which are much higher than the national average (14.2 versus 9.0 per 100,000 people).” Traffic fatalities are yet another problem partly caused by the influx of population putting great demand on the region’s existing infrastructure. Lieutenant Jody Skogen, the safety and education officer for the North Dakota Highway Patrol is not surprised by numbers like these. “Increased traffic numbers equates into higher probabilities of traffic violations, crashes and fatalities.” Over the 2013-2015 biennium, the Land Board will award a total of about $2.6 billion to western North Dakota to address needs including city infrastructure, highway, county and township improvements. It has also committed to stationing more Highway Patrol troopers. Strategic planning and allocation of the Energy Fund Grant money will hopefully alleviate many of these issues facing North Dakota and its EMS personnel. For a complete list of grants approved by the Land Board, visit www.nd.gov/ energyimpact. Get to Know Our Experts Ron Anderson Ron Anderson has been a part of the McKenzie County Commission since 1998. Before his appointment to the commission, he served three years in the United States Army, including one year in Vietnam. He followed his military career up with a career in state politics: he was a member of the North Dakota House of Representatives for 12 years, including one year in which he served as Speaker of the House. But in 1992, he quit the House to pay more attention to two of his greatest passions: his family and his ranch. The family ranch was started by his grandfather in 1909, and then passed on to Ron’s father. Ron worked on the ranch until 2009, and continues to live there with his wife, Myra, who taught senior English at Watford City High School for 34 years. In their spare time, Ron and Myra love to travel and spend time at their lake home in Detroit Lakes, MN. They have two sons and four grandchildren. 94 The Official Publication of the North Dakota Association of Oil & Gas Producing Counties
Feature On the Road Again By Paul Adair As oil and gas production in the state of North Dakota continues to boom, the roads and highways which weave through the Bakken are paying a heavy toll. The 28 th Annual Local Roads Conference recently met in Rapid City, SD, to bring together local road supervisors, engineers and road maintenance staff from six states to discuss new ideas and new practices for building and maintaining local roads throughout the Midwest region. “Local road conferences are great things,” says Mike Dollinger, engineering assistant with McKenzie County’s Engineering and Road & Bridge Department. “It helps to get all the people that are involved in the day-to-day county road operations together, and any time you can get those people together where they can just talk about specific problems and what they did about them, it’s a good thing.” McKenzie, Dunn, Mountrail and Williams Counties are situated in the heart of BASIN BITS | Spring 2014 95
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