By Mike Wiggins
The Daily Sentinel (Colorado)
The controversy over the provision of emergency medical service in the Grand Valley has taken another turn, with authorities investigating complaints that a private company is illegally providing ambulance service in an area that is supposed to be served by the Grand Junction Fire Department.
Mesa County Emergency Manager Kimberly Bullen said Wednesday her office has received two complaints that Life Care Ambulance, a two-year-old firm with 10 employees, is operating illegally within the city of Grand Junction. City officials say they have exclusive rights to provide emergency and non-emergency service within the city limits, in the Grand Junction Rural Fire Protection District and on Glade Park.
But Life Care owner Dave Anderson alleges the city is interfering with the company’s ambulance contracts with various care providers in the county and has used “Gestapo tactics” to discourage those providers from soliciting Life Care.
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