Ground Ambulance Service Agreement Signed – A new comprehensive Spokane County Ground Ambulance Service Agreement was approved by the Ambulance Service Board on June 30, 2010. After nearly four years of work effort by participating agencies, the contract was signed between the ASB and American Medical Response, with an effective start date of July 1, 2010. Agencies participating in the agreement are: Spokane Valley Fire Department, Spokane County Fire Protection Districts 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and cities of Airway Heights, Cheney, and Medical Lake.
The new agreement will provide for improved services to our citizens at no additional cost with pre-identified performance measures that AMR ambulances must meet. The agreement also provides a waiver of charges to our citizens by the ambulance company should they not meet the agreed upon performance measures outlined in the contract. The agreement further protects you, our citizens, by ensuring rate stabilization and audit controls for charges billed by the private provider (AMR) and audits of their performance under the agreement.
Pictured at the formal signing ceremony: Mike Thompson, Chief of Spokane Valley Fire Department and Contract Agreement Administrator; Randy Strozyk, Vice President of American Medical Response; Rocco Roncarati, the Spokane, Bozeman and Billings General Manager for AMR; and William Walkup, Chief of Spokane County Fire District 8 and Chair of the Ambulance Service Board for Spokane County