Ambulance

HARRODSBURG — Even in a calm atmosphere with no voices raised, the dissension was hard to miss between two commissioners at Monday’s regular City Commission meeting. The disagreement occurred over renewing the annual ambulance service contract. The contract is with Mercer County EMS, which is owned and operated by Paul and Roxanne Parks. Although it was renewed with a vote of 4-1, there was some discussion and an exchange of opinions over financial documents Commissioner Joe Hood said have not been provided by the company, as per the contract.

When we least expect it at some time in our lives we or someone we love takes a ride in an ambulance. The cost for this is not cheap. I know first hand because I have been in one a couple of times. An ambulance ride is one of the most expensive rides youll ever have. So I sat and thought about how to pay for this, then it came to me. A shared program for all lincoln co. residents. Each household in lincoln co. would give to the co.a $25.00 check or money order to the community based fund.

A crash involving a Jessamine County ambulance on the Nicholasville bypass Saturday caused multiple injuries. The Jessamine County EMS ambulance was traveling north on U.S. 27 with emergency equipment activated as it approached a red light at the intersection with Ky. 169 around 12:50 p.m. Saturday, according to a Nicholasville police report. It collided with a gold truck eastbound on Ky. 169 that had a green light through the intersection. “It appears that unit one (the ambulance)

A man was transported to Saint Joseph-Jessamine RJ Corman Ambulatory Care Center Tuesday afternoon after his truck collided with an ambulance just south of the “Y” intersection in Wilmore. The truck, a dark Mazda belonging to Thacker Auto Repair, was traveling south on Ky. 29 around 4 p.m. Tuesday while the ambulance, Jessamine County’s EMS-4, was coming out of the parking lot behind the gas station at the intersection of Ky. 29 and U.S. 68, according to Deputy Anthony Purcell of the Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office.

The fiancé of a Nicholasville paramedic injured in a Feb. 11 accident wants to know why the staff of an ambulance involved in the wreck had to wait 45 minutes before receiving care. In a complaint to the state EMS board, former Jessamine County EMS employee Andrew Wood questions the lengthy delay in sending an ambulance for his fiancée, Amanda Moore, and another paramedic, Samuel Sparks, who were injured in the crash earlier this month. The accident occurred around 12:40 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Ky. 169 in Nicholasville and involved an ambulance and three other vehicles.

Boyle Fiscal Court will renew its contract with the West Virginia company that bills patients for ambulance runs if the company, Medical Claims Assistance, agrees to reduce its commission to 7 percent. In the 2004 contract, the commission was 9 percent, and it had offered to lower it to 8 percent. Magistrate Rick McQuerry said he researched firms on the Internet and the industry average appears to be 7 percent. McQuerry said that even though it is only 1 percent, it amounts to $10,000 in savings for taxpayers.

Seriously sick or injured persons in Lincoln County who require transportation by a medevac helicopter will now have to wait longer for the "chopper" to arrive. That's because around-the-clock LifeNet Air Medical services at the Boyle County Airport in Junction City stopped operating last month. Lincoln County is now covered by medevac services in Lexington and Somerset. "We're talking minutes, but given some life-threatening injuries, minutes can make the difference between life and death," said Harry Nickens, Vice President for Community Relations at Ephraim McDowell Health.

LEXINGTON ? Garrard County Ambulance Service Director Colby Arnold has been resedated and put back on a ventilator Wednesday after pneumonia worsened his condition. Arnold underwent two brain surgeries to remove blood on his brain after falling off his bicycle and hitting his head Sept. 27. He was then kept sedated and on a ventilator for more than a week. On Tuesday, doctors at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital brought Arnold out of sedation and he was able to move his extremities and talk with family members.

LEXINGTON ? Garrard County Ambulance Service Director Colby Arnold's condition has improved to serious. He is no longer sedated and he has been taken off of ventilation. Arnold underwent two brain surgeries at the University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center last week after falling off his bicycle and hitting his head on Sept. 27. Blood was pooling between Arnold's brain and skull, necessitating the surgeries. Arnold was kept sedated and on a ventilator following his surgeries, but on Monday family friend Daryl Hodge said he has now been taken off the ventilator and has been talking with his family.

Last year traffic accidents accounted for 1,113 hospital runs made by Jessamine County ambulances. That figure accounts for more than 17 percent of the 6,475 patient transports to Lexington-based hospitals in 2005. Most victims - 550 - were transported from Nicholasville, 445 in the county, and 18 from Wilmore. Wendel Hatfield, director of Emergency Services, said traffic plays a big role in how an ambulance responds to auto accident calls. From the moment the ambulance receives a call for help, personnel start what Hatfield called a "pre-scene size-up.

When we least expect it at some time in our lives we or someone we love takes a ride in an ambulance. The cost for this is not cheap. I know first hand because I have been in one a couple of times. An ambulance ride is one of the most expensive rides youll ever have. So I sat and thought about how to pay for this, then it came to me. A shared program for all lincoln co. residents. Each household in lincoln co. would give to the co.a $25.00 check or money order to the community based fund.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how police may have dealt with the complaint.   MAY 3   12:29 a.m., report of a possible burglary in progress on Ashley Way; the resident is incarcerated and someone is at the home moving her stuff out. 5:35 a.m., an inmate wants to file a report that someone has stolen property and may have pawned it. 7:21 a.m., report that a vehicle parked on St. Mildred's Court was burglarized overnight; windows were busted out and two laptops were stolen.

The fiancé of a Nicholasville paramedic injured in a Feb. 11 accident wants to know why the staff of an ambulance involved in the wreck had to wait 45 minutes before receiving care. In a complaint to the state EMS board, former Jessamine County EMS employee Andrew Wood questions the lengthy delay in sending an ambulance for his fiancée, Amanda Moore, and another paramedic, Samuel Sparks, who were injured in the crash earlier this month. The accident occurred around 12:40 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the intersection of U.S. 27 and Ky. 169 in Nicholasville and involved an ambulance and three other vehicles.

A crash involving a Jessamine County ambulance on the Nicholasville bypass Saturday caused multiple injuries. The Jessamine County EMS ambulance was traveling north on U.S. 27 with emergency equipment activated as it approached a red light at the intersection with Ky. 169 around 12:50 p.m. Saturday, according to a Nicholasville police report. It collided with a gold truck eastbound on Ky. 169 that had a green light through the intersection. “It appears that unit one (the ambulance)

The Kentucky State Police have identified the victim of a one-vehicle accident on Moore’s Lane, three miles east of KY 1194 in Stanford. The wreck occurred around 10 a.m. when Josiah McGirr, 17, of Stanford, who was heading east on Moore's Lane, slipped off the eastbound shoulder, overcorrected and slammed into a tree on the opposite side of the road which came halfway into the passenger compartment. McGirr, a student at Fort Logan High School, had signed himself out of school shortly before the wreck.

BOE OKs field trips at special meeting The Jessamine County Board of Education approved two overnight field trips at a special called meeting Monday night after students qualified for the trips between board meetings. The board approved a trip for the Jessamine Career and Technology Center’s Student Technology Leadership Program to Louisville and a trip for the East Jessamine High School band to Richmond. Fiscal Court approves bid for replacement ambulance The Jessamine County Fiscal Court approved a bid for the renovation of an ambulance.

LANCASTER — The Garrard County Ambulance Service headquarters on Stanford Road recently got a little roomier, thanks to a $210,000 expansion. The expansion, which was completed a few weeks ago, doubles the size of the ambulance service’s vehicle bay and provides emergency responders a brand new operations center for when disasters strike. It also provides ambulance personnel two more bedrooms and an extra bathroom. “It’s been real nice,” Director Mike Tuggle said.

LANCASTER — Mike Mullins never had any doubt what his son would grow up to be. From a very young age, Michael Mullins Jr. had a penchant for his father’s work — emergency response. “I could hardly leave the house without him wanting to go out on runs,” the elder Mullins said. “He rode with me a whole lot on the truck back then. He just always watched.” Today, Mullins Jr. doesn’t just ride in the trucks, he drives them, too. He’s only 18, but Mullins Jr. already works full-time for Garrard County Ambulance Service and part-time for Danville Fire Department and East End Ambulance Service in Crab Orchard.

A man was transported to Saint Joseph-Jessamine RJ Corman Ambulatory Care Center Tuesday afternoon after his truck collided with an ambulance just south of the “Y” intersection in Wilmore. The truck, a dark Mazda belonging to Thacker Auto Repair, was traveling south on Ky. 29 around 4 p.m. Tuesday while the ambulance, Jessamine County’s EMS-4, was coming out of the parking lot behind the gas station at the intersection of Ky. 29 and U.S. 68, according to Deputy Anthony Purcell of the Jessamine County Sheriff’s Office.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED Major Brian Wood from Lexington Fire Department will bring Kentucky’s newest asset, the Medical Ambulance Bus, to Danville on Thursday. The bus will be available for tours from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the lot beside the Boyle County Health Department on Jacobs Street, and Wood will be available to answer questions about it. Boyle County can request the bus to assist in the event of mass evacuations or mass casualties. When requested, Lexington will send a driver, but it’s up to the community to staff the bus locally, so first responders should be familiar with it, the health department said.