I work for a small rural hospital based ambulance service. Over a year ago the hospital was having money problems and a bigger hospital came and took over the operations. Now the bigger hospital in charge wants to do away with the ambulance service, the only ambulance service that is based in our county. Don't they realize the impact that will have on the community and on the hospital. I live in a rural area and if they do away with the ambulance the citizens of our county are going to have a 45 - hour wait on another ambulance service from another county and then chances are they are not going to transport to our county hospital they will go back to their county. The bigger hospital says the ambulance service is costing the hospital 100's and thousands of dollars. How can this be when our operating costs are only $30,000/month and we go on a 100 calls or more a month. That doesn't count our AMA's. Ugh it's frustrating. We have board members who are a part of the community who are behind the big hospital getting rid of the ambulance service in our county. There is a board meeting soon and it will not be a pretty one. It's open to the public and I along with others are trying to make the public aware of what is going on. Sorry just had to vent