Emergency Services
| The Sturgis Ambulance Service provides emergency services to the residents of south-western and central Meade County, including the City Sturgis as well as communities in western Meade County. We also serve the residents in eastern Lawrence County, including lower Boulder Canyon and Vanocker Canyon. We also serve Butte County to the Vale turn-off on Highway 79. Our response area includes the I-90 corridor between exits 40 and 28, east to the Belle Fourche River and north on Highway 79 to the Vale cut-off. This is a response area of approximately 642 square miles, primarily in Meade County. We provide service to approximately 10,100 people. This response area was last adjusted in 2022. The Sturgis Ambulance Service is dispatched by the Meade County Dispatch Center. We are required by State law to respond when dispatched. The Ambulance Service also serves the Fort Meade Veterans’ Hospital and Sturgis Regional Hospital by transporting patients to and from other medical facilities in the Hills for medically necessary procedures and care. |  |
| We also serve the community by making medically required transports from local hospital systems to hospital systems (i.e. in Denver, Colorado or Billings, Montana or the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota). Additionally, the Service provides transport for the Meade County Jail facility. Inmates suffering from various conditions are transported by Ambulance Service to local hospitals. The Ambulance Service also takes intercepts from the communities of Newell, Faith, Eagle Butte, and Enning as required by existing Memorandums of Understanding for Advanced Life Support (ALS) care. These intercepts provide ALS service to another 5,830 people. The Sturgis Ambulance Service also provide periodic response to the Lead - Deadwood communities when the Monument Health Emergency and Ambulance facility or their back-up (Spearfish Ambulance Service) is unable to respond. | |