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Jefferson County board approves dissolution of regional ambulance agreement after billing, staffing updates
Summary
The board approved dissolving the county's 28E regional ambulance agreement and heard ambulance director updates on staffing shortages, plans to pursue field troponin testing, and a move toward bringing billing in‑house after low reimbursement rates with an outside vendor.
The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors on an unanimous voice vote approved a resolution to dissolve the county's 28E intergovernmental ambulance agreement and heard a detailed operations update from the ambulance director.
The ambulance director, identified in the record as Josh, told the board the service currently has two full‑time and one part‑time vacancies and is pursuing state laboratory certification that would allow medics to run point‑of‑care troponin tests in the field. "If we're able to run a simple blood test in the field to…
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