Facility Update Citizens Capital Budget Advisory Committee February 6, What is Medic? 2.How we use the space 3.Growing pains 4.What it means

1) What is Medic

What is Medic? Management Partners Funding  54% from fees for service  46% from county

4 What is Medic? Medic operates under a performance- based contract with Mecklenburg County to provide Advanced Life Support services (Paramedic level)  Medic’s Paramedics complete more than 2,000 hours of training in the Mecklenburg EMS Agency’s onsite Paramedic Academy

5 2) How we use the space

Communications Center Dispatches all Medic calls Delivers protocol-driven instructions over the phone to patients or those helping them until emergency personnel arrive Dispatches 18 volunteer fire and rescue departments countywide

Advanced training The Emergency Medical Education and Simulation Center provides Medic Paramedics and EMT’s the most-advanced and challenging situational and clinical training in America for emergency medical services personnel.

Open Pipeline At least one, sometimes two EMT/Paramedic classes will run continuously for the foreseeable future.

Other grant-funded assets ALERT-1 Med-1 2 ambulance buses

Fleet Services on site Fleet of 58 ambulances plus Operations Supervisors’, other vehicles

11 3) Growing pains

12 A Defining Decade +50% +100% % 0% *U.S. Census Bureau projection ,432* 40% , % 68, % +7% +6% $455 +5% -2% 88, % 68, % Population 621,845 Total Calls 41,023 Transports 30,776 Per transport $429

13 What it means

14 Building at capacity today

15 Parking exhausted today

16 Other factors Facility is not secure Remote lot unsafe for employees Communications Center not hardened

17 Property is landlocked Medic Post 100

18 Assessment Lease expires 2011: Must decide direction now Need operational space, parking to accommodate continued growth Must have secure facility for safety of employees, protection of assets Communications Center must be hardened to withstand weather, other potentially catastrophic events

19 Facility Update Citizens Capital Budget Advisory Committee February 6, What is Medic? 2.How we use the space 3.Growing pains 4.What it means