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Tompkins County committee explores unified EMS options, schedules consultant briefing
Summary
At its April 22 Public Safety Committee meeting, members discussed longer-term options for countywide emergency medical services, agreed to a May briefing by consultant Paul Bishop of CGR, and emphasized preserving current providers while studying ways to improve paramedic availability and mutual-aid coordination.
Tompkins County Public Safety Committee members on April 22 agreed to seek outside analysis of options to create a more unified countywide emergency medical services system and scheduled a May briefing by consultant Paul Bishop of CGR to outline possible models.
The committee’s chair, Rich (Chair, Public Safety Committee), said the county invited Bishop to present “what are the different options in use in the state for unified EMS services and what would that look like,” and stressed the county “doesn’t want to lose or damage the viability of the current providers while expanding any county role.” The chair said the aim would be to augment, not replace, existing services and to…
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