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Show EMT groups to change doctors? The ambulance companies in Kamas and Coalville are thinking about acquiring new physician partners to provide more localized service. ser-vice. The changes must be approved ap-proved by the Summit County Coun-ty Commission, which will meet next week with the companies. (The county holds the license for the two companies.) The South Summit Ambulance Am-bulance Company will decide early next week whether to designate Wasatch Hospital in Heber its resource facility. Currently, Current-ly, the Holy Cross Clinic in Park City is the "resource," that is, the physician facility that gives guidance and control con-trol over the radio to EMTs answering medical calls. Ron Davis, South Summit Ambulance president, said most residents in his area go to Heber for medical needs. Davis said a vote on the idea will be taken by the EMTs. In Coalville, the North Summi' ambulance company com-pany would still be linked to Holy Cross. But North Summit Sum-mit president Gale Pace said he hoped their new medical advisor would be Dr. Donald Allen, recently hired by Holy Cross to work in Coalville. The current advisor, Dr. Robert Barnett, lives in Park City. Coalville is a different dif-ferent geographical area, said Pace, and is a bit of a shock for outside doctors. Pace said the idea has only been broached to Allen vaguely. But living in town he would be able to devise programs for Coalville. "Dr. Barnett feels he (Allen) would be able to give more help," said Pace. However, he said, the EMTs will be satisfied if the commission wants to stay with Barnett. The commission would be meeting with the ambulance companies in any event. They must decide about renewal, for another year, of medical-service contracts for North Summit and South Summit. These provide for a medical firm (now Holy Cross) to provide training and aid to the EMTs. |