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p�f is-•�- �� <br /> Agenda Attachment 6 <br /> EMS <br /> Prior to duly 1, 1980 several significant problems existed in EMS as it <br /> functioned in Orange County. These problems were not necessarily county-wide, <br /> in fact several were entirely local. The most significant of these were: <br /> A. Inability to obtain a consistently adequate call response time <br /> at Orange County, primarily during the day. <br /> B. Underutilization of personnel, material and financial resources <br /> situated at New Hope. <br /> C. Difficulty Orange County and New Hope were having in obtaining <br /> sufficient funding to operate. <br /> D. No county-wide training system providing advanced 'gaining and <br /> leading towards. A.L.S. services. <br /> E. A complete unwillingness on the part of the squads to give up <br /> any portion of their identity to a larger group_ <br /> RECOMMENDATIONS <br /> I recommend as our next step the Board asking Memorial Hospital to be- <br /> come the sponsor hospital for both the South orange and Orange County Rescue <br /> Squads. The purposes of this action are twofold; <br /> A, To provide a routinely functioning training mechanism recognized <br /> by the squads, the County, and the hospital as the agency providing <br /> training both to the paid and volunteer ambulance attendant. <br /> B. To put into operation a mechanism that will untimately lead to <br /> a county-wide advanced life support system.. <br /> C. To adopt an Ambulance (EMS) Ordinance. <br /> } <br /> E <br /> t <br />