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Show Paramedics I'JIII Ansver ! If Davisites IVill Just Ca:ij Rocky Mountain Paramedics want to service Davis County, and will, it the Davis County Sheriffs office will call them, said Knute Eie. c&owner of Rocky Mountain Paramedics, in a presentation to the Davis County Commission Commis-sion Tuesday. A STATEMENT by Sheriff Dub Lawrence in December that the sheriff's office had never used the paramedic "hot line", prompted the paramedics to withdraw the unit they had stationed in the vicinity of 1-15 and Highway 193. Lawrence said Tuesday he wanted all of his policemen to become paramedics, and did not want "a battle at some point down the line with Rocky Mountain Paramedics." LAWRENCE ALSO said that his December statement came after two or three weeks when "nothing happened" that the paramedics should have been called on. "It's hard for me to believe there were no emergency calls." said Eie. "Our statistics statis-tics say that 10.000 citizens will generate one critical medical emergency per 24 hours. The way we are operating operat-ing now in Weber County, the Weber County Sheriff and Og-den Og-den City Police are notifying us of every accident with injury in-jury and every medical call they receive directly." NO CHARGE is made when paramedics are called to a scene but not needed, said Eie. Their base charge is $30 and when other tests are performed, per-formed, such as electrocardiograms, electrocar-diograms, these are not repeated by the emergency room. COMMISSIONER GLENN Flint asked whether insurance companies cover paramedic services. Eie said insurance companies com-panies did not now cover paramedic costs but that his most recent information is that Medicare may cover the Rocky Mountain Paramedics' costs as part of a pilot program starting in about three months. He said if Medicare begins coverage, the other insurance companies com-panies will begin to cover the costs as well. SHERIFF Lawrence said Tuesday he wanted his men trained by September, but Wednesday modified that to say he wanted them trained as soon as possible. He said getting get-ting them admitted to the program was a problem. "We can let three men go at a time for training, if everyone pitches in," he said Wednesday. To date, the longest long-est his men have covered for another officer's absence while training islt j for one officer. "V THE PROGRAM State College, a, - Paramedic offio-positions, offio-positions, and th, . . -$1700 for a su day j i,'" hours a day Scheie ' Admission is fa. . ' the State Division o ' The program begim,.:'? is filled, and ipp'."'.'" would need to he mai' ' away" for the progr4r r ning in September 1 ' totheWSC parameitV'' ment. ' SHERIFF Urrc. that even though hu'Y'" allocates about ,((. officer's training fc '-' about $20,000 thai ti.! drawn from other set-his set-his budget to cover tht Asked if he would be t Rocky Mountain Pan-, on every traffic acoo- ' injury and every mw. , ' Sheriff Lawrence , nesday, "As of yn. yes." SHERIFF Lawreno , meeting Friday . paramedics to clar ! , operations. |