The Medical Center of Bowling Green, Warren County

[benjaminfs733]

The Medical Center of Bowling Green is the only Ambulance service for Warren County Kentucky. The city and county fire will respond as first responders if requested but neither have the ability to transport.
Recently I have listened to MedCom's Dispatch and have noticed that they also dispatch for ambulances in Simpson County and Allen County. My questions are 2 fold. Is the Medical Center the only ambulances in these counties? Secondly how does the trunked radio system they dispatch on reach all of the other counties? I have heard them dispatch/contact ambulances in Simpson County on the Warren county trunked system. Do they also utilize a conventional repeater in other counties as well? I can not imagine that the Warren county system covers all of Simpson and Allen, but I have been wrong before. Thanks in advance for the input.

Ben

 

[KD4YGG]

Re: Med Center Bowling Green

Ben

Last I knew, Simpson County still dispatching EMS from the hospital in Franklin (I believe it is affiliated with Med Center Bowling Green).

453.65000
125 DPL
Simpson Co EMS Dispatch

The Bowling Green system is pretty spotty on the south side of Franklin where the hospital and EMS office is.

But stranger things have happened.

 

[avfd2922]

Allen and Simpson counties dispatch their own ambulances. The Medical Center does Warren County and Logan County. Reason being for Logan County is, I believe, the ambulance service they had was not adequate. Now for the radios, the 800 MHZ trunk system is for Warren County whereas Logan County is on a 400MHZ LTR system. Ambulances in Logan county mostly operate on a 400Mhz conventional radio system. What you are hearing is MEDCOM broadcasting simultaneously on 400 and 800 systems and no you won't hear the traffic coming back from 400 to 800. As for fire departments transporting patients, nope. Too costly, you figure it out, training, vehicle, insurance, insurance, insurance, lawsuits, and so forth. Easier for someone else to do.