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Pike County no longer has EMS service of their own, but has relinquished those duties to the private company known as MedCare.
Pike County Commissioner Tony Montgomery says MedCare is owned by Ohio Health and Ohio State University, but also as a non-profit, has an affiliation with Adena Health System.
Montgomery says “There are two reasons the county was unable to keep their own service going. Finances are always an issue and we could not keep the (EMS) trucks staffed enough in order to keep them going.”
The Pike commissioner added that MedCare will be “soft billing” in order to attempt to recoup some of their expense through insurance companies, but unlike the county former service, MedCare is non-profit and partners with Adena Health System.
MedCare took over the EMS runs in Pike County, February 1st. They offer 24 hour emergency service with two trucks.
Commissioner Montgomery concluded by saying Pike County will hold on to their two emergency vehicles until they can decide how they want to dispense with them.
MedCare was created to meet the demand by MedFlight’s consortium health systems, OhioHealth and The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and other Ohio hospital systems for greater oversight into the level and quality of care their patients receive from the point of discharge to their arrival at their next destination, be it home or another facility for further rehabilitation.
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