Monroe Co. Hart EMS leaving

[rjschall]

Just heard today through monroenews.com that Hart EMS Monroe is pulling out of Monroe County because of financial troubles. AMR will cover north of the river raisin and ProMedica will cover south of the river raisin. My question is, and I'm sure that no one knows as of yet, what will happen to Hart's talkgroups that were assigned to them from the county? Will AMR & ProMedica be equipped with the radio system by next Wednesday (4/6) when Hart leaves?

[MONROEUSER]

as of right now no one will get their talk groups. the state is looking into a few things like the fact that hart ems and mercy hospital which are private orginizations have access to these radios which is not what the agreement was. i am waiting to hear what they decide. mercy was suppose to go on line april 5th that has now been put on hold................

[rjschall]

Just learned that Hart will be leaving 7am Monday instead of Wednesday as planned. I have already seen AMR and ProMedica in the county. Central made a tone out last night saying that AMR and ProMedica may show up on calls. I have also seen Lifestar today at Tendercare of Monroe nursing home and the Great Lakes Dialysis center making transfers. How are these companies communicating? Who is dispatching them to these runs?

[SEMTTP]

Originally Posted by rjschall

Just learned that Hart will be leaving 7am Monday instead of Wednesday as planned. I have already seen AMR and ProMedica in the county. Central made a tone out last night saying that AMR and ProMedica may show up on calls. I have also seen Lifestar today at Tendercare of Monroe nursing home and the Great Lakes Dialysis center making transfers. How are these companies communicating? Who is dispatching them to these runs?

Well, Promedica would be using their own Dispatch, as would AMR and Lifestar. Monroe County Sheriff Dispatch would have to be contacting the private ambulance companies directly when they have a call!

Eric

[WTFD10]

ProMedica Dispatch: 453.1250 PL 79.7

I also heard someone identifying themselves as Dispatch calling Alpha 65 on 154.430 last night so they may be using the old Monroe County Fire Ch. 1 for comms.

[rjschall]

From what I know, that is how central dispatch contacts the Hart EMS units over the VHF system. Alpha 65 is a Hart unit. Usually they dont give ETA's and fire calls central and has them get one from them.

[jpryor]

ProMedica has been working Monroe County Alpha units on their 461.225 Toledo repeater (PL 67.0) the past couple days; their ProMedica Air helicopters also use this repeater (PL 203.5). Hopefully they'll get a dedicated repeater for the Monroe County folks at some point, they keep stepping on each other. It seems their dispatch does not understand that both channels are actually running through the same repeater but with different PL tones. Same problem the Lucas County mobile units had before they moved over to the 453.1250 repeater.

[ThornyO5]

If I monitor 461.225 for ProMedica units, will I hear the crackle in the radios from being far from the repeater? And also, 453.125 is listed as ProMedica, what's the diff?