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DeWitt County Board Approves PSI

It was a packed County Board room Thursday night, as most of the people in attendance were waiting to hear the DeWitt County Board's decision on the recommendation of the DeWitt County Ambulance Advisory Committee's recommendation to approve Paramedic Services of Illinois (PSI) for the western portion of DeWitt County's ambulance service.

DCAA Chair, Teresa Barnett spoke before the full board to give her presentation of the Committee's recommendation. Barnett addressed the capacity crowd of the Board Room. She wished the room of people in attendance would have attended their three months worth of meetings to know the extensive process which her committee took to make their decision.

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Non-voting liaison for the DeWitt County Board, Terry Ferguson says the Committee worked very hard and they asked a lot of good questions. Ferguson speculates there could have been a better plan to pursue more specifically modeling after the Logan County model.

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Ferguson also points to the fact that PSI was over $100-thousand lower than the next competitor for the service, the DeWitt County Ambulance Association. Ferguson says the quality of service that would have warranted them spending that extra money was not clearly demonstrated.

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There was not much deliberation amongst the County Board members once the motion was made to approve PSI. The County Board approved the motion to DCAA's recommendation of PSI by a vote of 9-2.

Only three people were on the agenda; Clinton resident Aaron Kammeyer, and Earl Sheehy and Larry Schleicher representing the Dr. John Warner Hospital. The Board did not open the floor up for other opinions to be voiced.

Next week we will hear the comments made by Sheehy and Schleicher to the Board.

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