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West Hardy EMS: Small Town with Big Heroes

12/29/2023

It started as simply keeping emergency services up and running, but ended with a bus full of entrepreneurs answering the call of their community. 

Members of the West Hardy Emergency Medical Services first met Robert “Buc” Hammer, a business coach with the West Virginia Small Business Development Center, near the end of 2021. But why they met him was the most important part.  

The small town of Moorefield, the seat of Hardy County and where most of the county’s population lives, was about to lose its only emergency medical service. The next nearest service was more than 10 miles away, and in a rural town, that can mean life or death depending on the situation. 

Read more:
https://wvsbdc.com/west-hardy-ems-small-town-with-big-heroes/​