6 | Emergency Health Service
nificantly by location and provider. Meanwhile, air
transport was typically provided when necessary
by Canadian armed forced stationed nearby.
` An early 1990s report commissioned by the
provincial minister of health offered a comprehen-
sively grim evaluation of the state of Nova Scotia’s
emergency service offerings, and recommendations
made in the report ultimately led to their takeover
by Emergency Health Services.
These days, the EHS system is comprised of
many public-private partnerships across ground
