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MEMO <br /> <br />TO: <br /> <br />Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners <br /> <br />FROM: Ron Harwood, EMS Director <br /> <br />DATE: Sept. 25, 2001 <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Specialized Transport <br /> <br />I received a phone call Sunday morning from one of my Supervisors, Alan Thompson asking me <br />if I knew that Specialized Transport had terminated service as of 8:00 PM Saturday, <br /> <br />I advised him that I did not. <br /> <br />Upon contacting Dean Hastings, the owner of Specialized Transport, he informed me that he was <br />only getting 1 to 2 transports a day. He advised that he had heard that Harrisburg Fire and <br />Rescue was receiving all of the calls for non-emergency transports. <br /> <br />He stated that he had spent over $200,000 so far to provide service in Cabarrus County with a <br />return of only around $7000. He said he could not afford to continue operations. <br /> <br />I met Monday morning with my management team to discuss available options. <br />We talked with Chief Chuck Greene and Deputy Chief Brian Dunn of Harrisburg Fire and <br />Rescue. They agreed to increase their staffand make every effort to handle the non-emergency <br />needs. <br /> <br />Based on the number of calls run by the two services, I don't see a need at this time to have more <br />than one non-emergency provider. <br /> <br />I will be in Greensboro for EMS Today, Sept. 30 through Oct. 3. I will talk to other EMS <br />Directors and state Office of EMS personnel for references as a contingency if Harrisburg cannot <br />handle the call load. <br /> <br /> <br />