Dakota Heritage Bank donates $20,000 for new Medina ambulance
Dakota Heritage Bank’s $20,000 gift gives Medina Ambulance another push toward a replacement rig, but the service still depends on pieced-together funding.
Dakota Heritage Bank in Medina donated $20,000 to help Medina Ambulance Service buy a new ambulance, a cash boost for a small Stutsman County service that covers about 700 square miles and a long stretch of Interstate 94.
For a rural ambulance crew, that kind of money matters because every response has to be planned around distance, weather and who is available to roll. Medina Ambulance has already faced staffing strain, with five volunteers at retirement age, leaving fewer responders to cover calls across farm country, town streets and the interstate corridor.
The bank donation adds to a patchwork of local support that has kept the service moving. On March 13, 2023, the Medina board backed EMS reimbursement and accepted a truck donation, another sign that the community has been assembling resources one piece at a time to support emergency medical service in town.
Medina’s EMS funding challenges also sit inside a broader county conversation. Stutsman County Commission minutes from Jan. 21, 2025, referenced discussion tied to proposed legislation, and Central Valley Health District, established in 1973, serves Stutsman County as the public health department. In a county where the ambulance must be ready for rural roads as well as I-94 traffic, a newer rig is not a luxury item. It is part of keeping response reliable when the calls come in fast and the miles are long.
The $20,000 gift does not finish the job on its own, but it moves the service closer to replacing an aging ambulance and reduces the burden on a department that has been leaning hard on volunteers, public reimbursement and community donations to keep operating.
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