Rettungswagen

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  1. Posted

    North County is taking deviey of their new ambulances next week should be on the road  by december  one of them is going to station 104 when that opens in end of november

    I saw it on display at EMS World Expo in Vegas last month. I believe it was a Road Rescue box.

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    It seems a lot of the  new Chevy rescues are of OS a lot, I see them using more spares then front line cars

    I think they should have looked at   Braun,  PL Customs, Wheeled Coach, Road Rescue, Horton or Braun Northwest  

    on Ford F-350 or F550  heavy duty chassis or  type 3's Ford Transit chassis  

    well maybe after Dodge/Demers   

    Demers is a less expensive alternative to the premium brands you have listed above (with the exception of Wheeled Coach). I don't recall any of the top builders winning a PFD ambulance bid in the past. Btw, none of the builders are offering Ford Transit-based Type 3's yet. The GVW rating is lower than the Ford E-450 cutaway Type 3 chassis. Crestline will have a Transit Type 3 prototype on display at EMS Expo in Las Vegas next month. I'm guessing it will be targeted more towards interfacility transport duty.

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    Gilbert city council voted to approve the AMR contract at the 7-30-2014 council meeting. AMR is required to agree not to oppose GFD's CON application. I wouldn't be surprised to see GFD doing ALS transports with its own ambulances before the end of this year.

  9. Posted

    Buckeye is in talks to start their own ambulance service. I was told their presentation went well. Buckeye Valley has too many issues that Buckeye is tired of.

    Buckeye has a DHS CON hearing scheduled in August and again in November. It's a long and expensive process. No doubt Buckeye Valley will be at the hearing to oppose the issuance of a CON to Buckeye.

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    Eventually they will have do there own transporting, Like Sun City, Sun Lakes, North County etc...

    These national company's will not be able to honor these very very strict  fire department contracts

    and make the profit margins they want.  so many fines for, if they don't make response times, use wrong ambulances,

    employees don't dress right, etc..  FD's can use there Medics any time they want too and need to get reburisement's  

     etc...  Besides RM & AMR who else is there ??       

    I think it's going to be tough for any more Valley fire departments to get their own CONs, and almost impossible for Maricopa Ambulance. It's doubtful DHS is going to be sympathetic to FDs now that R/M has emerged from bankruptcy and AMR has entered the market. The best hope for FDs is to lobby the state legislature and convince the politicians to do away the the CON law. Until that happens the DHS has to comply with the CON law and must not allow the Valley to become oversaturated with ambulance service providers. It's my guess the additional issuance of CONs in the Valley is about to come to a screeching halt. A few FDs got theirs in the past 6 months but the remaining FDs aspiring to get into 911 transport are too late for the party.

  11. Posted

    Gilbert is signing a contract with AMR and Queen Creek is also signing with AMR  

    apparently RM/SWA  was not honoring the contract, and wanted to cut the number of ambulances,

    owed Gilbert over $150,000 for rebursements since the summer 2014,  and RM bankrupt 's were the key

    reasons,  

    That's an interesting development. Glad to hear AMR is breaking into the 911 transport market so soon. I thought it would be next year at the earliest. AMR has 6 brand new Type 3 rigs sitting in front of their Tempe office that are not being utilized. I would imagine those available rigs would allow AMR to start serving Gilbert or QC right away. BTW, the SWA east Valley regional ambulance contract expired about a year ago. Glendale's contract with SWA expired about two years ago. Like Gilbert, Glendale is also having problems with R/M concerning reimbursements. This might compel Glendale to sign with AMR. Glendale withdrew its application to get its own ambulance service CON a couple of weeks ago.

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    Also There is usually 10 to 15 AMR's at San Tan Ford  Type 2"s & 3's AMR seems to have the Dignity Health contract

    Possibly that Ford dealership is contracted to do the maintenance on AMR's rigs. I don't believe they have their own fleet maintenance facility yet.

     

    AMR is slowly taking interfacility transport market share away from R/M. I'm guessing it will take a couple of years before they begin to put a big dent in R/M's business in the Valley.

  13. Posted

    There is a new Ford white Ambulance siting inside Station 251  for over week

    Is it a box or is it a van? AMR has a couple of plain white Ford Type 3 rigs in its local fleet. Maybe GFD is exploring a new 911 transport contract with AMR.

  14. Posted · Edited by Rettungswagen

    I saw 2 Brand new AMR Type 2 ambulance's at Santan Ford Yesterday

    AMR has 14 2013 Ford Type 2 and 6 2013 Ford Type 3 rigs registered by DHS to operate in Maricopa County. I haven't seen any of the Type 3 units yet. I'm guessing they're probably parked in a garage up in Prescott until AMR can generate enough business in the Valley to put them to work. Most of the Type 2 rigs are parked in AMR's Tempe garage. Only about 4 or 5 of those seem to be staffed. AMR has only been doing busness for little over a month so it will take a while before most of the rigs hit the streets and start generating income.

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    gunhog11, thanks for the update on R/M's Pima County operations. The displacement of those paramedics you mentioned might be just the beginning their job anxiety. An additional disruptive situation could occur in 2015. A DHS CON hearing is scheduled for late March. AMR intends to enter the Pima County EMS market. Click link below for all of the relevant DHS/OAH documents. If AMR is granted CONs for Maricopa and Pima counties, I see the possibility of R/M being pushed back into Chapter 11. This could ultimately result in a merger with Envision Healthcare or Falck.

     

    https://portal.azoah.com/oedf/documents/2015A-EMS-0011-DHS/index.html