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Board hears history of EMS District 2, oversight model and response-time results
Summary
At the March 9 meeting, Doug Smith Lee reviewed EMS District 2's formation, litigation that shaped franchise contracts, oversight structures and performance measures (response times and clinical outcomes), and described recent decisions to return regional oversight to the district after the City of Vancouver's earlier stewardship.
The EMS Service District 2 board on March 9 heard a lengthy historical presentation from Doug Smith Lee of the Clark Regional Emergency Services Agency about the district's legal and operational model, performance measures and the reasoning behind using a franchise contract for ambulance service.
Doug Smith Lee traced the district's origins to a 1987 ordinance and described litigation in the early 1990s (Buck Medical Services) that prompted the parties to adopt competitive allocation via an RFP and franchise contract rather than a call-rotation approach. He said the settlement and state enabling legislation (RCWs referenced without specific citation in…
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