Consultants: ‘Keep status quo,’ don’t contract out for EMS

Results from an in-depth, 126-page report on emergency medical services in the Camas-Washougal area show that city leaders’ best, most cost-effective option is to maintain the status quo.

City-funded consultants from Emergency Services Consulting International met with city leaders in Camas and Washougal this week and urged them to keep the area’s medics and medical transport services in-house with the Camas-Washougal Fire Department instead of contracting out to private providers or entering into an agreement with Vancouver to use that city’s emergency transport services.