Hello,
Is anyone familiar with any county or private ALS services in or around the St. Pete/Tampa metro? All I was able to find was Manatee Co. EMS and Lee Co EMS. If anyone can point me to a couple more or provide some feedback that would be great.
Thanks!
Fire Departments are ALS in all of Pasco, Pinellas, and Hillsborough counties. In Pinellas, Fire does no transporting and all patients are tranported via Sunstar which is managed by Paramedics Plus.
In Pasco, fire transports most patients and will call BLS companies like. AMR and medfleet to transport the BLS patients. AMR and Medfleet also do IFT's.
Most of the "BLS" transport companies also hire medics for transfers..
Hillsborough Fire rescue and tampa fire rescue both transport all ALS patients and BLS in transported by... AMR, Transcare, or Americare. those three also do IFT's and psych transports.
As you get farther north i.e. hernando and citrus they are BLS fire departments and use Nature coast EMS for medical.
Thank you for the info. I understand that in order to be a paramedic in FL you must have your FF 2 certificiation and I think FL doesnt recognize out of state certifications. If anyone can correct me that would be great, beacuse I am already FF 2 certified in another state and would only need to get my medic license to begin applying for jobs in FL.
Once again, I appreciate the responses.