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WHEREAS, the City of Fort Worth has participated in the funding of
a study of the requirements and options for the establish-
meat of a county-wide ambulance service system; and
WHEREAS, the Commissioner' s Court of Tarrant County did co-sponsor
and help coordinate this study to ensure that the needs
and interests of all of Tarrant County' s residents,
including the citizens of the City of Fort Worth, are
addressed by the study; and
WHEREAS, the study was directly supervised by a specially appointed
Ambulance Service Study Committee made up of persons from
throughout the County with a wide and appropriate range of
expertise in the clinical, business, financial, organiza-
tional and political matters which must be considered and
dealt with' if the study recommendations are to prove prac-
tical and effective; and
WHEREAS, the Study Committee did direct the development of findings
and recommendations and, after considering the advantages
and disadvantages of optional system designs, did unani-
mously approve a set of findings and recommendations, said
set of findings and recommendations having been .published
in two volumes, entitled "Tarrant County Pre-Hospital
Emergency Medical Services, " Volume 1 (General Findings
and Assessment) and Volume II (System Design and Implemen-
tation) ; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of Fort Worth has received said report
and is undergoing evaluation of its provisions and its
implications regarding ambulance services for the citizens
of Fort Worth;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL
OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS:
While neither accepting nor rejecting the specific details
of the findings and recommendations contained in the report of the
Ambulance Service Study Committee at the present time, the City
Council does hereby endorse and approve the concept of a county-wide
ambulance service system which would include at least the following -
salient features:
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1 . Emergency ambulance service will be operated by the private
sector and a periodic competitive bid process will be used to
select the private operator, in order to ensure a full and fair
opportunity to compete for any contract by all qualified
bidders.
2. A central dispatch system with an advanced communications system
and all ambulances will be owned by the public sector but
operated by the private operator.
3 . The system will allow each city to determine whether or not it
will subsidize the price of ambulance services for its citizens
and to what extent.
4. A uniform ambulance ordinance will be adopted by all partici-
pating jurisdictions in order to provide for uniform regulation
throughout the system.
5 . Medical oversight will be provided by a board or entity directed
by full-time practicing emergency physicians which will result
in a system of uniform medical protocols to be applicable
throughout the entire system.
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6. The Tarrant County Hospital District 1d assume responsi-
bility for payment of all emergency medical services for indi-
gents in conformity with State constitutional requirements.
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7 . There be a senior citizens subscription program which will
fix the price of the uninsured portions of ambulance bills and
allow unlimited use of medically necessary emergency and/or
non-emergency ambulance service.
S . The Uniform Ambulance Ordinance will call for the establishment
of a regulated sys#hem of Fire Department and volunteer-based
first responders.
The City Council further authorizes and empowers the City
Manager to work with the County Commissioner' s Court and all
interested jurisdictions throughout Tarrant County to develop an
organizational and legal framework for implementation of such system
and to cause to be drafted the instruments necessary to create such a
framework and submit same to the City Council for its consideration.
PASSED this /�"f� day of 1984.
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