Smokey Dyer, Chief of the KCMO Fire Department. I attended the South Platte Ambulance District monthly meeting last Wednesday with Chief Dyer as the featured guest. Accompanying Smokey was Interim MAST CEO, Darryl Coontz. There were 3 guests in the audience plus me and three fire fighters from the fire station where the meeting was held. Chief Carrizzo (Southern Platte County Fire) was also in attendance. Mayor Jerry Bos eventually showed up, 15 to 2o minutes into the proceedings.
My main interest in the meeting was to nail down the assertion by Jerry at the last BOA that KCMO might possibly be thinking of not providing "non-emergency transport" His example was an elderly person who falls and breaks a hip and needs a way to get to the ER. Must have been another urban legend spawned at the last Northland Mayors Council. Smokey was quite emphatic on this issue, citing the $8 million revenue MAST currently takes in for non-emergency transport. Their total revenue is $30 million, so they do not intend to walk away from that piece of their business. Somewhat related, he mentioned they intend on continuing to offer their membership program with unlimited service for $59 for households with insurance or $99 without insurance http://www.mastambulance.org/membership.php.
The target date for the completed integration of MAST into the KCMO Fire Department is slated for 1 May, 2010. More to follow.
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