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462.9500 | 167.9 | Med 9 R Dispatch Eldridge & LeClaire based ambulances, MEDFORCE helicopter crews and MEDIC Shuttle Bus. Used by ALCOA Security, Durant and Buffalo Ambulance Services to contact MEDIC | ||||||||||||
| Racom EDACS | a | Operations, all MEDIC communications regarding paramedic service are now on RACOM talkgroups. | |||||||||||||
| 155.4000 | 0.0 | F2 s unit to unit (in use?) | |||||||||||||
| Genesis -East Medical Control | 463.0000 | 167.9 | R MED-1 Used by inbound units for both Genesis' Campuses for non-MEDIC EMS units. [Medic units now on RACOM TG 11-142] |
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| Genesis -West Medical Control | 463.0750 | 167.9 | R MED-4 not used [Medic units now on RACOM TG 11-142] | ||||||||||||
| Trinity North Medical Center | 463.1250 | 167.9 | R MED-6 Not Used [Medic units call Trinity North on RACOM TG 09-121] |
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| Davenport Hospitals Ambulance Corporation aka MEDIC Ambulance supplies contract paramedic level ambulance to the City of Davenport (north of US 61 in the southwest), City of Bettendorf (west of Devils Glen Road), Central North area of Scott County. It will when requested, back-up any other ambulance service in the county. | |||||||||||||||
| Currently units are based in Scott County at Genesis East & West Medical Centers, Eldridge Ambulance Facility.& the newest location in LeClaire. Also MEDIC 13 & 14 are based at Mercy in Clinton. | |||||||||||||||
| Medic is self-dispatched, When a medical call comes into either Davenport or Bettendorf 911. The call is transferred to Medic at their Headquarters at the Genesis East Medical Center. Since May of 1999 they are on the Racom EDACS 800 Mhz trunked radio system. They also have a avl (automatic vehicle locating system) to display the location of all medic units and are able to dispatch the closest unit to medical calls. | |||||||||||||||
| As of August 99. Medic is dispatching Illini Ambulance via the Racom EDACS system. The service is also using the AVL for positioning. | |||||||||||||||
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| Aircare
The University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics has two small Helicopters. One based in Iowa City and the other at Covenant Hospital in Waterloo. They can also use any public safety frequency in the 138-174 Mhz range. or the 463/468 med channels. At left are the most recent ones Aircare has used in this area. The helicopters can access Nextel Analog's Motorola Trunked Radio System in the Quad-Cities, Iowa City & Des Moines. |
155.3400
463.0750 155.4750 |
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| MEDFORCE
After Air EVAC pulled out of the area in May 2000. Local community leaders tried to get another service for the area. The new service was set up in Sept. The helicopter is a BELL 222 that is based at a newly built base in the Colona-Green Rock area. |
155.3400
462.9500 |
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| Buffalo Ambulance
Service
Area serve by BAS is south of Locust & west of I-280 in the county. southwest of US61/West River Drive in Davenport and Muscatine County from Muscatine to the southest corner. Paged out by Muscatine or Scott Counties Sheriff |
155.2800 R | 100.0m | . | ||||||||||||
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| Durant Ambulance
Service
Durant serves southwest Cedar County, Scott County between Plainview Road (IA-130) and Locust Street, and Northeastern Muscatine County. Paged out by Cedar County Sheriff. |
154.4150 | . | . | ||||||||||||
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| Wheatland Ambulance
Service
Wheatland serves Scott County north of Plainview Road (IA-130) west of Y48. Also southwest part of Clinton County. Paged out by Clinton County Sheriff? |
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| De Witt Ambulance
Service
De Witt can backup Medic in the North Central part of Scott County mainly from McClausand in the east to Donuhue on the west south toward Eldridge |
155.340
155.205 |
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| Out of Business Ambulance Services | |||||||||||||||
| M & M Ambulance
Provided service within Davenport and surrounding area. After losing the Davenport EMS contract to MEDIC in the early 80's it tried to move to Muscatine. Went out of business soon after. |
155.2200 | . | . | ||||||||||||
| LeClaire Ambulance Service
Provided service to eastern Scott County for thirty six years. Area served by LAS was east of Z30 in Scott County and east of Devils Glen road in Bettendorf. Paged out by Scott County Sheriff . There was questions EMT crew availablity and it was suspended by the state after an incident regarding an extended response time for a fatal call. It was decided by the Ambulance board to shut down the service on 6/30/01 |
155.1600 | . | . | ||||||||||||
| Lifeline Ambulance
Located in Park View. it served north central Scott County. It went out of business about 1985. Dewitt Ambulance served the area for a while till Scott County Health Dept. assigned the area to MEDIC |
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| De Witt Ambulance
An earlier business. It went out of business around 1980. The name and assets were taken over by the De Witt Hospital. |
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| Air Evac 6
An air ambulance service placed a helicopter at the Davenport Municipal Airport in the fall of 1997. It had a partnership with Trinity Hospital till late in 1999. It pulled out of the area in May 2000 claming it was not getting enough flights to stay solvent. |
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