The Baldwin County Board of Commissioners may choose a new emergency ambulance service provider during the commission meeting on Sept. 26.
Baldwin County Manager Carlos Tobar told The Union-Recorder during a Monday morning telephone interview that the topic would definitely be addressed as an agenda item in the meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. and will be held in the county commission meeting room on the second floor of the county government complex.
The new ambulance service will replace the current one serving Milledgeville and Baldwin County – Grady Emergency Services, which has served both this county as well as neighboring Hancock County for the past several years.
Earlier this month, the Hancock County Board of Commissioners began its own county operated ambulance service. It is known as Hancock County Ambulance Service. It is fully staffed and has a fleet of four ambulances.
Grady EMS, which is based out of Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, decided earlier in the summer not to renew its contracts with either Baldwin County or any of the other counties it has been serving in other parts of Georgia with the exception of Fulton County. Company officials decided the demands for emergency services in that area dictated the need for them to stay in the area instead of offering ambulance services to other counties across the state.
Six ambulance service companies submitted proposed bids to officials in Baldwin County two weeks ago, but during a recent special called commission meeting, commissioners rejected all six bids. They agreed to have EMS companies resubmit bid proposals last Friday at noon. At that time, Tobar said five such proposals were received.
Those five EMS companies included: Atrium Health Navicent; Patriot EMS; AMR – Troup County EMS; American EMS; and…
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