Comments on: Escambia EMS Receives Florida Excellence Award

By: stayingstrong

stayingstrong — Fri, 06 May 2016 04:21:07 +0000

All our Heros work hard together at times to produce excellant care.
This does not mean to discredit anyone’s assistance on the calls.
Yes EMS is self funded, but we never turn our backs to patients whether they can pay or have insurance
We strive for all ways to improve or care in patients and the ESO program does help a lot.
Thank you to ALL our Heros in Escambia

By: Good Job

Good Job — Thu, 05 May 2016 20:22:20 +0000

@lookdeeper
ECFR Has decided not to respond to the vast majority of incidents that ECEMS responds to.
Also, EMS has placed ALS quick response vehicles on the road to further reduce the number of responses made by ECFR, and funds those vehicles, and the EMT’s and Paramedics that staff them out of their own self-generated revenue, without using taxpayer money- the same revenue that they generate with their great customer service, and billing.
That’s saving tax dollars that would go to the fire department, at the expense of revenue generated by EMS, with no thought or mention of reimbursement by ECFR.
The only time ECFR response does anything to help response times is when EMS is holding calls, (which usually happens several times/day) or when they are greater than 10 minutes away, and only on high priority calls that warrant an immediate ALS response. Fire should not ride the coat tails of EMS, and the hard work of their dedicated employees. This award should go to the hard working men and women of ECEMS.

By: lookdeeper

lookdeeper — Thu, 05 May 2016 14:38:25 +0000

some of the recognition should go to fire for making their response times better and they also help with custome r satisfaction