In a status update from Trigg County Hospital CEO John Sumner, new ambulances had already gone through bid processes of $100,000 and $130,000 respectively in May and September of last year, with one of those supposed to arrive this week.
That didn’t happen, and Sumner noted it’s put the hospital’s ambulance fleet in some unneeded risk.
Sumner told the board this newest ambulance would cost $150,000 — considerably more than the last two ordered — but that it would be on the ground and in use throughout the county and beyond no later than the next couple of weeks.
This purchased ambulance is coming from New York state, and Sumner addressed the fleet’s currently mileage — and how it’s beginning to run high.
Waiting any longer, Sumner added the board ran the risk of even higher prices on a new or lightly-used ambulance — as prices for first responder vehicles continues to escalate.
In what was a heavily-contested subject, the Trigg County Fiscal Court passed the 10-cent-per-$100 Ambulance Taxing District in the summer of 2018.
Replacing ambulances was its key crux.
