DE PERE, WI (WTAQ) – The De Pere Fire Department has received a $206,831 state grant for an EMS mobile unit.
The money comes from the Healthcare Infrastructure Capital Grant program.
“The grant will fund a mobile unit to allow De Pere Health Department and De Pere Fire Department to collaboratively provide services such as mobile vaccination clinics, the Stay-at-Home Assistance Program, COVID and other disease outbreak response, shelter response, community education campaigns, and many other programs for De Pere residents,” Debbie Armbruster, Health Director/Officer for the City of De Pere, said in a news release
“Currently, these initiatives tie up Fire/EMS critical response vehicles, which can lead to delays in care and emergency response. With the addition of the jointly owned mobile unit, both departments will have an appropriately stocked and ready-to-go vehicle to provide important, non-emergent health and wellbeing services to the community.”
The mobile unit will be used to reach people such as older adults and students at the Syble Hopp School for children and young adults with disabilities.
