Chatham-Kent taxpayers can be paying extra for his or her paramedics and ambulance companies within the coming years if Council approves a brand new contract.
On Monday night time at their assembly, councillors can be requested to approve a brand new 5 yr $82.9 million contract with Medavie from January 1, 2025, by way of December 31, 2029. That is a 23.3 per cent enhance from the earlier cope with the Ministry of Well being paying 50 per cent of the contract.
A report authored by CK Hearth Chief Chris Case confirmed the annual land ambulance price will bounce from simply over $14.2 million in 2024 to almost $17.9 million in 2029.
Chief Case mentioned all payroll, advantages, pensions, and Office Security and Insurance coverage Board (WSIB) prices are paid by Medavie and do not price the municipality any extra cash for these advantages or administration.
“From a service supply perspective, to have paramedics throughout the Municipal construction supplies alternatives for nearer partnerships, deployments, and innovation. Nevertheless, Chatham-Kent has the advantage of in a roundabout way using paramedics with HR facets akin to WSIB, negotiations, and so forth., which we presently have interaction at a hard and fast contract worth,” Case famous. “Now we have beforehand gone by way of the Request for Proposal course of and at the moment Medavie was the one bidder. Now we have good connections throughout the trade, and as such have been capable of benchmark prices and make sure that no different suppliers are providing paramedic companies in Ontario.”
Chief Case wrote that Chatham-Kent is one of some municipalities that also contracts out land ambulance service because the province downloaded Emergency Medical Companies (EMS) to upper-tier municipalities 24 years in the past. The fireplace chief mentioned nearly all of municipalities present a direct supply mannequin for EMS.
Medavie started offering land ambulance service to the municipality in 2012.
“All ambulances, gear and EMS stations are owned by the Municipality of Chatham-Kent and Medavie supplies staffing and oversight of the Land Ambulance Service contract,” Chief Case wrote.
CK presently has 14 ambulances, three assist automobiles for supervisors, three automobiles for the Group Paramedicine program, and a cell assist trailer, in keeping with the chief.
The municipally additionally owns six EMS stations in Chatham, Wallaceburg, Tilbury, Thamesville, Ridgetown and Blenheim.
The chief’s report said Medavie Chatham-Kent employs one full-time normal supervisor, 4 full-time managers, 4 full-time supervisors, 5 part-time supervisors, one administration employees out of the Chatham Headquarters, together with 123 unionized employees, comprised of 87 full-time paramedics and 36 part-time paramedics.
