FW: Ambulance Availability for Hurricane

[Guest guest]

From: Leigh Anne Bedrich

Subject: Ambulance Availability for Hurricane

Importance: High

RE: Request for EMS Provider and Ambulance Strike

Team Leader Availability for DSHS Missions to Valley in Support of

Hurricane

TO: NCTTRAC EMS Providers

ACTION: Contact Maxie Bishop with DSHS and NCTTRAC if

Available

If you have not yet been contacted, DSHS is assessing availability for

Ambulances and Ambulance Strike Team Leaders (ASTLs) for deployment

within the next one to two days through the holiday weekend.

If you have any availability of either ambulances, individual medic

personnel or ASTLs for possible deployment to the Valley, please contact

Maxie Bishop at maxie.bishop@... () and copy

NCTTRAC at labedrich@... so that we can help keep you informed.

If you do not have your DSHS MOA signed yet, Maxie can help you

facilitate that pretty quickly. You will be reimbursed by contract

within 30 days of the submission of your complete paperwork. I know

some of you are waiting on reimbursement from other state agencies; we

are not trying to prevent you from committing to anyone else, but also

wanting you to be aware of this opportunity as well. Remember that it

is not just your personnel cost but also vehicle and personnel backfill

that is reimbursable. Please see the MOAs for more information.

This is the link to the MOAs:

http://www.dshs.state.tx.us/emstraumasystems/MOAPage.shtm

If you need an MOA for your individuals, ASTLs or MIST personnel, use

the MOA for EMS Personnel which is designed specifically for those folks

and their non-ambulance vehicles. Otherwise for ambulances, use the

ground or air MOA as appropriate.

Thanks for your service.

LAB

Leigh Anne Bedrich

www.NCTTRAC.org