Both health care systems in Duluth - Essentia and St. Luke's - are competing to attract a proposed University of Minnesota medical school to their campus.
Northland nurses are concerned about the potential for no union representation for the new healthcare facilities planned by Essentia for Duluth, Cloquet, and the Twin Ports.
Given the fact that for any medical type emergency call Firefighters are always the first to arrive makes it critical for them to have all the equipment they could possibly need.