AFTER 20 YEARS OF UTILIZING PRIVATE AMBULANCE services, the City of Fitchburg is returning to municipal operation of the emergency medical service…..kind of.

In a uniquely designed contract, the fire dept. will staff a BLS unit while the private amb. firm will staff two ALS units that will be housed in fire stations.  The private company will bill all patients for services and then pay a fee to the city on a per-call basis.  That money will be used to pay for the 5 firefighters budgeted for the BLS unit.  It doesn’t say who actually owns the vehicles.

Fitchburg FD photo

Read the Worcester Telegram story HERE and see if you can figure it out.

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