Southern California Private Ambulance Companies

[jeepdude911]

I know I am replying 4 years late, but I just found EMTLIFE. In reply tu Sapphyre, I worked in San Bernardino County both for AMR and SBCoFD and found it to be nothing like you described. The majority of calls I ran for AMR resulted in us being first on, and unless it needed an ALS transport, we most often cancelled fire. I worked for County fire in the Big Bear (Fawnskin) area, and FD personnel staffed the ambulances there. I now work in the Bay Area.

 

[RocketMedic]

I can't believe more of y'all haven't discovered Texas and New Mexico yet. Great living out here.

 

[AnthonyM83]

Ouch. So, if a nursing home is sending a patient to the emergency room, regardless of the nature of the complaint, they must call 911? Interesting, albeit I can't really say I disagree with it considering some of the patients that I have been called for. Of course I'm sure that the medic/fire fighters are just thrilled with their new call volume.

Naw JP, it's still almost the same. Nursing home to ER is labelled Urgent BLS and the IFT rig responds code 2, then make their transport decision from there.

They had some companies sending private IFT rigs code 3 trying to bypass the 911 system, so they had to rewrite some more policies and put their dispatchers through training classes, to prove they knew what was acceptable to respond to and what wasn't. A lot of private ambulance companies disregard those rules, though.