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[[Image:paramountambulance.jpg|left|thumb|250px| Photo in 2012.]]PARAMOUNT AMBULANCE. Beginning in September, 2014 Paramount Ambulance offered E-911 service for Jo Daviess County; emergency ground ambulance service to Iowa City, Rockford, Madison and Rochester; non-emergency transfers (local & long distance); inter-facility transfers (ie. hospital to hospital, radiation, cardiac catherizations, kidney dialysis); paramedic intercepts allow the local services to maintain patient care with our paramedic upgrade; extended care facilities service; VA hospital transfers; hospital discharges. | [[Image:paramountambulance.jpg|left|thumb|250px| Photo in 2012.]]PARAMOUNT AMBULANCE. Beginning in September, 2014 Paramount Ambulance offered E-911 service for Jo Daviess County; emergency ground ambulance service to Iowa City, Rockford, Madison and Rochester; non-emergency transfers (local & long distance); inter-facility transfers (ie. hospital to hospital, radiation, cardiac catherizations, kidney dialysis); paramedic intercepts allow the local services to maintain patient care with our paramedic upgrade; extended care facilities service; VA hospital transfers; hospital discharges. (1) | ||
In 2017 the service employed over sixty EMTs and paramedics and managed a fleet of ten ambulances, three shuttles and a rapid response vehicle. | In 2017 the service employed over sixty EMTs and paramedics and managed a fleet of ten ambulances, three shuttles and a rapid response vehicle. (2) | ||
As a private ambulance service, Paramount handled its own billing service with its billing specialists. These employees had certification as CNAs, Critical Care Paramedics, and Registered Nurses. They also carry Certified Ambulance Coder certification. | As a private ambulance service, Paramount handled its own billing service with its billing specialists. These employees had certification as CNAs, Critical Care Paramedics, and Registered Nurses. They also carry Certified Ambulance Coder certification. (3) | ||
Officials of MercyOne and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics announced in September 2019 negotiations had broken down and that air care by helicopter would no longer be based in Dubuque. The service started in Dubuque in 2016. Although not stationed in Dubuque, local physicians could still call for air services. At the same time PARAMOUNT AMBULANCE announced that it was ready to offer fixed wing air ambulance. The new service in partnership with Physicians Air Transport and Pafford Air Med was to be based at the [[AIRPORT]]. (4) | |||
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Ney, Alicia, "Who Pays for the Ambulance Anyway?," ''The Golden View'', June 2017, p. 1 | Source: | ||
1. Ney, Alicia, "Who Pays for the Ambulance Anyway?," ''The Golden View'', June 2017, p. 1 | |||
2. Ibid. | |||
3. Ibid. | |||
4. "Medical Helicopter to Depart Dubuque Hospital," Telegraph Herald, September 13, 2019, p. 3A | |||
Revision as of 01:50, 16 September 2019
PARAMOUNT AMBULANCE. Beginning in September, 2014 Paramount Ambulance offered E-911 service for Jo Daviess County; emergency ground ambulance service to Iowa City, Rockford, Madison and Rochester; non-emergency transfers (local & long distance); inter-facility transfers (ie. hospital to hospital, radiation, cardiac catherizations, kidney dialysis); paramedic intercepts allow the local services to maintain patient care with our paramedic upgrade; extended care facilities service; VA hospital transfers; hospital discharges. (1)
In 2017 the service employed over sixty EMTs and paramedics and managed a fleet of ten ambulances, three shuttles and a rapid response vehicle. (2)
As a private ambulance service, Paramount handled its own billing service with its billing specialists. These employees had certification as CNAs, Critical Care Paramedics, and Registered Nurses. They also carry Certified Ambulance Coder certification. (3)
Officials of MercyOne and the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics announced in September 2019 negotiations had broken down and that air care by helicopter would no longer be based in Dubuque. The service started in Dubuque in 2016. Although not stationed in Dubuque, local physicians could still call for air services. At the same time PARAMOUNT AMBULANCE announced that it was ready to offer fixed wing air ambulance. The new service in partnership with Physicians Air Transport and Pafford Air Med was to be based at the AIRPORT. (4)
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Source:
1. Ney, Alicia, "Who Pays for the Ambulance Anyway?," The Golden View, June 2017, p. 1
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. "Medical Helicopter to Depart Dubuque Hospital," Telegraph Herald, September 13, 2019, p. 3A
In Dubuque the service was located in 2012 at 3rd & Locust.