Chelsea Headley is the new director of the Phillips County EMS replacing Dr. Edwin Medina who had been in that position for the past 20 years.
Headley grew up in the Pittsburgh, PA, area and then moved to upstate New York where she went to high school. She went to college at Philadelphia University, which is now part of Thomas Jefferson University, on a five-year program for physicians assistants.
Headley said "Between the schools in Pittsburgh and then upstate NY, I have seen both the big city and smaller communities. I went from a class of 400 to a class of 80."
After graduating from college, Headley said she was looking to work in an E.R. for a smaller community and one that helped pay back school loans.