Minutes 05/18/1983 l
MEMORANDUM
DATE: May 31, 1983
TO: EMSAC MEMBERS
FROM: W. Neil Dorrill/Public Safety Administrator
SUBJECT: Minutes of EMSAC Meeting
In accompaniment please find copy of Minutes of the
regular meeting held on May 18, 1983 . Please review
these in order that they can be adopted at the next meeting
to be held on Wednesday, June 8 , 1983 at 4 :00 P.M. in the
Emergency Operations Center, Room 144 , in Bldg "F" .
WND/bm
cc : C. William Norman, County Manager
Grace Spaulding/Administrative Aide
File 14-D
Naples , Florida May 18 , 1983
LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Emergency Medical Services
Advisory Council met on this date at 4 :00 P.M. in Room 144 ,
Bldg. "F" of the Courthouse Complex with the following members
as indicated below:
CHAIRMAN: Egon Hill
MEMBERS : Dr. Hanns Ehrhardt
Sgt. Richard Davidson
Chief Jim Billman (Absent)
David C. Graham (Absent)
Marvin Cecil
W. H. "Biff" Comte
Richard Akin (Excused)
Jonathan Smelko
Wm. Shaughnessy (Excused)
EX-OFFICIO MEMBERS : Chief Norris Ijams
Dr. Meli for (Excused)
Dr. Wm. Cox
E. G. Whidden for
Sheriff Rogers
STAFF ADVISORS : Anne Foster
Doug Greenfield
W. Neil Dorrill
Dr. Robert Tober (Absent)
ALSO PRESENT: Sharon Aragona for Richard Akin;
Doug Cameron, EMS; Jack Wampler, EMS
Billing; Steve Smith, CHSI, and
Billie Moyer.
AGENDA
I. Roll Call
II . Reading and/or Approval of Minutes
a) Regular Meeting of April 13 , 1983
III. Advisors Reports
IV. New Business
V. Old Business
VI. Adjournment
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ADVISORY COUNCIL
' May 18 , 1983
MINUTES
Minutes of the meeting of April 13 , 1983 were not available.
ADVISORS REPORTS
TASK FORCE REPORT:
Mr. Hill announced that the Task Force had completed its work
and a report had been forwarded to both the County Commissioners
and the City Hall . He asked that the committee look over their
copies which would be distributed at the end of the meeting, and
send any comments to Chief Ijams, adding that if the comment was
important enough, an addendum would be issued.
Mr. Hill also announced that on May 19, 1983 , one of the first
trials involving charges against EMS would be held in the office of
Judge Trettis and that on May 25, 1983 a special meeting would be
held in Room 144 , Bldg "F" to hear the complaint of Mr. John Shick.
He invited anyone who might be interested to attend.
BILLINGS & COLLECTIONS :
Jack Wampler reported the billings had dropped down to $71 ,845
last month, probably due to the season 's end, but said the collections
amounting to $54, 677 , were still the 3rd highest month ever. The
percentage of collections for the month was 66 . 9% , moving out cummu-
lative total from 60.7% to 61 . 1% .
REQUEST FOR AIR-AMBULANCE CERTIFICATE OF NEED:
Mr. Dorrill reported the receipt of our second request for a
Certificate of Need & Necessity from Flight Nursing, Inc . , out of
Fort Lauderdale, who wish to establish a satellite facility for an
air-ambulance in Naples. He advised that we will be starting the
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process and hopefully at the next meeting will have received the
financial and background information necessary for the Advisory
Board to take action.
STATUS OF NEW EMS FACILITY:
Doug Greenfield reported that the new EMS facility located
in the Tahitian Professional Plaza, the 3100 block on Terrace Ave. ,
is a structure at this time and anticipated completion date is
July 1. He added there might be some flexibility, however, depend-
on availability of some materials specially ordered for making the
building weather proof .
Mr. Hill asked when the present lease would expire and was
told by Mr. Greenfield that it had done so months ago, but that
arrangements had been made with the owner to occupy the premises
on a month-to-month basis .
Dr. Ehrhardt inquired if the new facility met with the new
ruling on elevation, "three cinder blocks high" and was assured
by Doug that it was even higher.
NEXT MEETING
The next regular meeting of the EMSA Council is June 8 , 1983 ,
and will be held in Room 144 , Bldg "F" at 4 : 00 PM.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business to come before the EMSA Council ,
the meeting was adjourned at 4 : 22 PM.
Minutes Prepared BY: Billie Moyer
Chairman Egon Hill
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