Mutual Aid Ambulance Service expands coverage in Fayette County
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A second rural Fayette County municipality chose Mutual Aid Ambulance Service Inc. as its exclusive provider of emergency medical services for township residents.
Springfield supervisors formally made the designation this week. The municipality was previously covered by Connellsville-based Fayette EMS.
“We are honored and privileged to expand our service to Fayette County residents,” said Scot Graham, Mutual Aid’s chief operations officer.
“We take seriously the trust placed in us by the Springfield supervisors to care for their residents at their times of most urgent need and are pleased to provide our nationally-recognized patient-centered care from another new station in Fayette County,” Graham said.
In July, supervisors in Bullskin, also in Fayette, designated Greensburg-based Mutual Aid as its exclusive provider of emergency medical services for that 44-square-mile community. Bullskin abuts Springfield.
Effective immediately, Mutual Aid will provide an Advanced Life Support Paramedic and Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) crew at the Saltlick Volunteer Fire Department station in Indian Head that will be staffed 24-hours a day, seven days a week, as well as the Bullskin Township Fire Department in Wooddale, according to Graham.
Those resources are in addition to Mutual Aid’s longstanding station in Stahlstown, Westmoreland County.
Residents are reminded that all emergency requests should continue to be placed through 911.
Springfield Township covers 60 square miles and is located in the northeastern portion of the county. It has approximately 3,000 residents.
Bullskin supervisors did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
Ted Kopas, Mutual Aid’s chief development officer, would not say Thursday whether the ambulance service was presently negotiating to expand services into other communities.
“We’re honored to be serving those communities who have welcomed us,” Kopas said.
Mutual Aid will continue to honor ambulance memberships purchased by Springfield residents from Fayette EMS until March 31, 2021. Those interested in a new Mutual Aid membership, which offers reduced co-pays and rates for doctor’s office transports, can join online at www.mutual-aid.com/membership or by calling 724-837-6134.