By Katy Sweeny
Oroville Mercury-Register
BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. — A partnership of Butte County’s two ambulance companies won a recommendation to continue treating and transporting local patients over the nation’s two largest ambulance services. Butte County EMS, a union of First Responder and Enloe Medical Center, will go before its oversight agency’s board for approval on Nov. 9.
“We’re just thrilled to death,” said Marty Marshall, director of emergency services for Enloe. “We’ve worked long and hard to develop and create the best bid we could.”
Sierra-Sacramento Valley EMS, the agency that oversees ambulance services in a number of counties, recommended last week that Butte County EMS become the exclusive ambulance provider in the county for at least five years, said Vickie Pinette, the agency’s regional executive director. More than a year ago, the agency announced it would seek a single provider for Butte County.
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