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[[Image:paramountambulance.jpg|left|thumb|250px| Photo in 2012.]]PARAMOUNT AMBULANCE. | [[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. | ||
In 2017 the service employed over sixty EMTs and paramedics and managed a fleet of ten ambulances, three shuttles and a rapid response vehicle. | |||
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. | |||
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Ney, Alicia, "Who Pays for the Ambulance Anyway?," ''The Golden View'', June 2017, p. 1 | |||
In Dubuque the service was located in 2012 at 3rd & Locust. | In Dubuque the service was located in 2012 at 3rd & Locust. | ||
[[Category: Health Care]] | [[Category: Health Care]] | ||
Revision as of 00:28, 3 July 2017
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.
In 2017 the service employed over sixty EMTs and paramedics and managed a fleet of ten ambulances, three shuttles and a rapid response vehicle.
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.
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Ney, Alicia, "Who Pays for the Ambulance Anyway?," The Golden View, June 2017, p. 1
In Dubuque the service was located in 2012 at 3rd & Locust.