Is your service a stand alone department or is it under another dept.

What is your EMS agency

  • EMS agency ran by city, town, village, or county

    Votes: 9 27.3%

  • Under LEO

    Votes: 1 3.0%

  • Under fire dept

    Votes: 6 18.2%

  • Privately run

    Votes: 17 51.5%
  • Total voters
    33
  • Poll closed .
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To start my vollie service is under the community constable. Is yours stand alone or is it part of another dept.
 
To start my vollie service is under the community constable. Is yours stand alone or is it part of another dept. I accidently hit the wrong poll reply I meant to click Under LEO
 
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Ok, so what is a "vollie service"?

Sounds sporty. I've never known.
 
Oops i created another thread by accident with the same subject could a mod delete this thread please.
 
fortsmithman said:
Volunteer service.
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Oh. That makes sense.

In that case, I'm not a part of it, but the fire departments around here are staffed by volunteer members from the city's EMS company and local hospital. All are current or former employees (EMTs, Paramedics, RNs) of the EMS company or the local hospital.

And I apologize, since that in no way addressed your question.
 
No offence taken. Before I joined this site i never heard the term vollie either. Neither did i hear the terms wacker or fire monkey. I'm on here and another forums site that have a canadian section.
 
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We're private.


Later!

--Coop
 
private interfacility transport company
 
Oh--to clarify, we're private BLS--911 only, far as I'm concerned.
There's been ugly rumors of doing some interfacility transports, the details of which have yet to be hammered out. These will be PRN and not required of the duty crew--seperate schedule for that...

Later!

--Coop
 
B.C. Ambulance Service - Province Owned Service

Not much else to say about that........ :unsure:
 
need other

ours is Civilian; ran by civilians, overseen by the military; on a military base.
 
We have an identity crisis I think, It's a private service that's jointly owned by 4 of the larger local hospitals in our area. We run only paramedics with a couple part time intermediates that fill in open shifts. We field 911 calls and also do interfacility transports to or from any facility within our response area. We also have a program to transport employees from their place of work to a clinic for drug testing or minor injury care when 911 is not needed.
 
We are an EMS agency run by the county. We get some of our funding from taxes and the employees are paid as county employees.
 
I work County based ambulance district and a hospital based....Since I work more for the county district, I selected County
 
Ours is a "Trust" which is hard to describe. It does receive some monies from County, yet we are not a County service as we cover multiple counties also. We receive the majority of the revenue from billing and payment services (which we are fortunate to have a high return ratio and to be well into the black).

The Trust has a board represented from various persons (hosp adm, attorney, citizen, appointed persons from different communities) that oversee the Director.

R/r 911
 
One thing I forgot to mention in my post is my company is also considered a non-profit organization. I think that's because nobody pays there bills we could never make a profit.
 
I'm both. We are a junior taxing district in the county which provides both Fire and EMS to our citizens. I wouldn't say that one is under the other. We have one administrator, one board and separate entities of EMS and Fire with many who cross-train between the two.

It does make for some interesting daisy chains of command though. As Medical Officer, I am a chief officer of the department and will often out rank firefighters on the scene of a fire, but there is no way at all that I'm going to take command of a fire scene from someone who's been doing it for ages.
 
What's a LEO?

We're under "protective services" along with the cops and the firefighters.
 
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