For a ski area that has less than 200,000 skier visits annually, what types of alternatives for ambualnce services are in use at resorts today. We currently use a local town ambualnce service and they are concerned that our needs stretch their ability to respond to all other needs in the town.
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Started by spunkyskier01, Nov 28 2005 03:09 PM
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Posted 28 November 2005 - 03:19 PM
We also use the local town ambulance - and they feel stretched thin as well. This service is backed up by a larger service in a nearby (kinda') town. I'm not sure just how many ambulances would be appropriate, but things get pretty hectic around here now and then.
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Posted 28 November 2005 - 04:25 PM
Willamette Pass also uses local ambulances from Eugene, even though Eugene is 1.5 hours away from the mountain. I remember my dad had to drive me to the hospital when I had a compound fracture since the ambulance already left with another person going to the hospital.
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Posted 28 November 2005 - 04:41 PM
I am about 95% sure that all of the summit county resorts (Breck, Copper, A-Basin, Keystone) use the Summit County ambulance services. Keystone has their own suburbans that function as public safety and medical response but I dont think that they transport to the hospital.
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Posted 30 April 2008 - 06:14 AM
SkiBachelor, on Nov 28 2005, 04:25 PM, said:
Willamette Pass also uses local ambulances from Eugene, even though Eugene is 1.5 hours away from the mountain. I remember my dad had to drive me to the hospital when I had a compound fracture since the ambulance already left with another person going to the hospital.
Not true, Willamette uses Crescent Lake EMS since the Aid room isn't in Lane County. 15 min response time. Oakridge is the backup 30 min response time.
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Posted 30 April 2008 - 07:38 AM
My nephew rode the sled in the backward on the ski slope area and he hit the ski resort restaurant brick fence. He was unconscious. The EMS helicopter took him to fly to the children's hospital. If an ambulance would take him...the time takes two hours travel. Now he is ok, just half of his face is paralyzed. He is very lucky becuase his spinal cord or neck didn't break. The helicopter cost him a lot of money, so his insurance paid for it.
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Posted 30 April 2008 - 10:00 AM
Our ski hill provides its own van shuttle service for non-emergent injuries; patrol personnel drives the van and attends the patient. For more serious injuries (femurs, head injurs, etc), the Patrol calls the Fire District to dispatch an ambulance with EMT and/or paramedic attendees. The ski hill would prefer that the FD run all ski area injuries, but this is always fodder for the great debate about the appropriateness of the public funding private enterprise driven expenses.
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Posted 30 April 2008 - 01:50 PM
I know that Copper has what they call an EMV. Essentially it's just a Ford van equipped to transport people in sleds. This is only used to transport injured people from the slope to the clinic. Otherwise they use Summit County's ambulance service, and then of course there is Flight for Life all across Colorado.
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Posted 30 April 2008 - 06:24 PM
You beat me to it. We've actually got two EMVs; one is built on a one-ton crummy chassis and the other is an ex-delivery van with the cube still attached.
Crystal used to have one Pierce County Ambulance on standby at the lower patrol room. The paramedics had both the easiest and most boring job in their department- they weren't allowed to ski, for obvious reasons, and they also weren't allowed to even ride up to the mountain duty stations in case the lift broke down while they were on board. So they sat in the LPR and read magazines all day. Occasionally they helped out as aid room personnel on a semi-official volunteer status since they were there anyway.
Crystal used to have one Pierce County Ambulance on standby at the lower patrol room. The paramedics had both the easiest and most boring job in their department- they weren't allowed to ski, for obvious reasons, and they also weren't allowed to even ride up to the mountain duty stations in case the lift broke down while they were on board. So they sat in the LPR and read magazines all day. Occasionally they helped out as aid room personnel on a semi-official volunteer status since they were there anyway.
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Posted 03 May 2008 - 09:46 PM
liftmech, on Apr 30 2008, 09:24 PM, said:
You beat me to it. We've actually got two EMVs; one is built on a one-ton crummy chassis and the other is an ex-delivery van with the cube still attached.
I've seen the cube floatin' around the over there!
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