The parishwide Ambulance Service Committee is expected to vote today on asking the Ruston Fire Department to come back to the negotiating table for rural emergency medical and rescue service.
More than half of Lincoln Parish’s police jurors say want to see the Ruston Fire Department back at the negotiating table for rural ambulance and rescue services.
It would take a unanimous vote of the Lincoln Parish Police Jury to bring the city of Ruston back to the negotiating table for rural emergency medical and rescue service, Mayor Ronny Walker said Monday.
The Ambulance Service Committee has abandoned its original preferred means of financing emergency medical and rescue services for Lincoln Parish as a lost cause.
It will cost the Lincoln Parish Police Jury $1 million to provide ambulance and rescue service to rural residents for just one year, according to a pair of proposals sent to the parishwide Ambulance Service Committee.
The Lincoln Parish Police Jury would have an option of signing a one-year contract for ambulance service with Pafford EMS under the terms of a new draft agreement from the company.
If Pafford Emergency Medical Services becomes the ambulance provider for Lincoln Parish, it will add one advanced life support ambulance to its area fleet, but that ambulance won’t be sitting in the parish waiting just for local calls.
