LAKEPORT — Sutter Lakeside Hospital gave the Lakeport Fire Protection District (LFPD) $20,000 to help purchase an ambulance in February of 2012.
The LFPD Board of Directors started a fund with the money to replace a 1988 model that had accrued 180,000 miles. The district purchased a refurbished ambulance from Iowa the following September, according to Rebecca Southwick, development officer at Sutter Lakeside Hospital.
The LFPD now operates two front-line 9-1-1 ambulances and two inter-facility ambulances, Wells said. Last year the district answered 1,127 emergency calls and 975 inter-facility transports.
To date this year, the fire district has responded to 741 emergency calls and 608 inter-facility transports.
“Sutter Lakeside Hospital works so closely with the Lakeport fire district year-round, Siri Nelson, chief administrative officer at Sutter Lakeside Hospital, said. Our hospital offers basic emergency services to the county, which means that we have a physician available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We know how much our community depends on us to be there when they need us and how crucial emergency transportation is in our county.”
Sutter Lakeside is a nonprofit community hospital that has more than a 65-year history of serving Lake County. For information, visit www.sutterlakeside.org/.
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