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Jefferson County asks local hospital to help offset ambulance transfer costs; board also explores radios from opioid funds
Summary
Supervisors voted to send a letter to Jefferson County Health Center seeking a financial agreement to help cover ambulance transfer costs; staff also discussed using opioid-settlement funds to buy new radios for ambulances and portables, pending legal review.
The Jefferson County Board of Supervisors voted Feb. 20 to send a letter to Jefferson County Health Center asking the hospital to consider a financial agreement to help offset the cost of ambulance transfers to Iowa City and other higher-level facilities.
Supervisor (Speaker 1) told the board that in the first six months of the year the county billed roughly $284,000 for transfers and collected about…
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