Nearly five years after the coronavirus pandemic highlighted an already well-documented need for more community emergency medical services personnel, a 133-page report sanctioned by the Ocean County Board of Commissioners lays out a plan for a countywide system to address the shortage. Implementation of the plan comes with a nearly $11 million year one price tag.

“The state of New Jersey doesn’t even recognize EMS as an ‘essential service’ so this study is meaningless,” Beach Haven First Aid…