Yes.
South Dakota is fourth in the nation with the percent of people who live in an ambulance desert, according to a 2023 study.
The state has 15.2 percent of its county populations in areas underserved by ambulances – behind Montana (27.8 percent), New Mexico (19.6 percent) and Utah (19.1 percent).
The study, completed in May 2023 by the Maine Rural Health Research Center and the Rural Health Resear…