40 Under 40: Adam Parker (Sanford Health – Bismarck, ND)

40 Under 40 nominees were selected based on their contributions to the American Ambulance Association, their employer, state ambulance association, other professional associations, and/or the EMS profession.
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Adam Parker
Operations Manager
Sanford Health
Bismarck, ND

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Nominated By: Kelly Dollinger (North Dakota EMS Association – Bismarck, ND)

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Biography:

Adam Parker has been involved in North Dakota EMS for over 15 years working for volunteer, private, and hospital-based EMS services. Adam is currently employed by Sanford Health as an Operations Manager overseeing AirMed operations, EMS education and outreach, and a Community Paramedic program. Adam is also a Board Member for the North Dakota EMS Association and serves as Chairman of the Advocacy Committee and Co-chair of the Service Leaders Committee. Adam lives in Bismarck, ND with his wife, Jessica, and two children.

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Reason for Nomination:

As President of the North Dakota EMS Association – I am thrilled to have the opportunity to nominate Adam Parker for consideration in the AAA’s Inaugural Mobile Healthcare 40 Under 40 – due in part to his exceptional and continued rise through the leadership of North Dakota EMS.

Adam’s full-time position is with Sanford Health as the Operations Manager for the Bismarck and Dickinson AirMed bases, as well as the Sanford EMS Department. In his position, Adam oversees the daily and strategic operations for two air medical bases, as well as EMS outreach and education. Adam also spearheaded the creation of the newly developed Community Paramedic program. Currently, Adam supervises over 50 mobile health care professionals including Paramedics, Community Paramedics, Critical Care Paramedics, and Advanced Certified Registered Nurses.

Adam has successfully obtained his Master’s Degree in Business Administration and also completed the Certified Medical Transport Executive course. Adam is always learning and applying what he learns to better himself and the EMS industry.

On top of his busy schedule, Adam serves on the North Dakota EMS Association Board of Directors. Adam serves as the Co-chair of the Service Leader Committee and is currently the Chairperson for the Advocacy Committee. It is in this capacity where Adam has contributed greatly to our EMS Association and the agencies throughout North Dakota. Adam has been instrumental in obtaining Legislative Grant Funding for North Dakota EMS agencies and assisted in developing a formula to determine funding that would allow for as many ambulance services as possible throughout the state. This proved highly contentious, and risked the loss of all state grant funding, but Adam developed a successful strategy and managed the situation extremely well by negotiating with legislators to find a workable agreement. Adam also serves as our State Advocacy Coordinator and Affiliate Advisory Council representative for the NAEMT.

Adam was also instrumental in advancing the Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate CompAct (REPLICA) legislation. This bill successfully passed and North Dakota became the 17th State to be recognized as a REPLICA state.

Adam is very knowledgeable in various aspects of state and local politics, policies, and procedures. Adam is the go-to expert on establishing local taxing districts and he advocates heavily for every ambulance service to establish themselves as a political subdivision, since this is the best way to ensure sustainability in rural areas. Adam freely donates time to meet with and assist ambulance services going through this process as it is very complex and daunting for most rural agencies.

Most recently, Adam has taken it upon himself to educate himself on the inner workings of the Medicare cost data collection process and has contacted every ambulance service selected in the state to ensure they understand what they need to do and has helped them organize themselves to collect the necessary information. Despite Adam’s employer not being selected to submit cost data this year, Adam still gives a lot of his time to ensure that rural ambulance services in North Dakota are successful with this important requirement.

Adam is very generous with this time and freely gives out his phone number and encourages anyone to call if they need help – with anything. There is no doubt that Adam would be of the finest selections for the Inaugural Mobile Healthcare 40 Under 40 in recognition of his contributions to the entire state of North Dakota and the mobile healthcare profession.

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