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Rocky Point ambulance service area faces advisory-physician gap; county, emergency manager mobilize temporary cover
Summary
Rocky Point Ambulance lost its advising physician and is temporarily covered under a mutual-aid arrangement while Klamath County emergency management and commissioners seek a long-term adviser and statewide help.
Rocky Point Ambulance has lost its required advising physician, and county officials told the Klamath County Board of Commissioners on July 1 that a temporary fix is in place while they seek a permanent replacement.
Ian Thigpen, Klamath County emergency manager, said state law requires every inch of the county be covered by an ambulance service area and that each service area must have a medical adviser who is a licensed physician. He said Rocky Point — one of 13 ambulance service areas in the county — recently lost its adviser and has struggled to recruit a replacement.
Thigpen said Basin (an ambulance…
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