Recently, the Adams County Ambulance received word from Blessing Hospital that they will need to vacate their main location at Blessing 14th Street facility. This comes as no surprise since Blessing has little by little phased out its operations from that facility over the past several months.

The three Quincy ambulances have been housed there for the past 17 years and will need a new home in a little over a year. According to a Herald Whig report, Blessing Hospital’s Board of Directors has offered a land donation close to their 11th Street campus area plus a $125,000 donation for the construction of a new ambulance facility.  The donation will not come near what it will cost to build a new facility so Adams County tax payers will need to supplement any additional cost needed if they go that route.

This all leads me back to an April blog I wrote.  It was then I suggested, why not come to an agreement with the Adams County Board to locate the three city-housed Adams County Ambulances at three of the city’s fire stations?

By being strategically located around the city, their response time would be quicker than if they were housed at Blessing Hospital’s 14th Street Campus as they are now. Under this scenario, there would be no need to also send a fire truck which would save the city money with each call as well.

Plus, there is always the option of housing the Adams County Ambulance headquarters and an ambulance at the now vacant fire station at 24th and Cedar location. You may need to build onto the two other fire stations to house an ambulance, but I can’t help but think that it would still be cheaper than to build a larger facility to house three ambulances.

Having three strategically located ambulances and utilizing a worthy vacant building seems to be a good idea to me.

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