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Show Ambulance Used Often This Month The Grand County ambulance am-bulance has been put into use 12 times since it was put into operation September 26, according to Dan Sites, acting secretary se-cretary of the Grand County Emergency Medical Medi-cal Technicians. Furnishing of the unit was completed with installation in-stallation of a radio obtained ob-tained through the Inter-mountain Inter-mountain Regional Medical Medi-cal Program, utilizing federal funds. An ambulance-port has been included in-cluded in the amended Grand County 1973 budget, bud-get, to be built at the hospital at a cost of $3000. The ambulance is now located at the hospital. hos-pital. A $25 charge is made for ambulance service within the community, and an additional 50 cents a mile charge is made outside out-side the immediate area. Charge on transfer of patients pa-tients to other hospitals is 50 cents a mile, and trips to both Salt Lake City and Grand Junction have already been made by the unit. |