To: Board of Supervisors
From: Anna Roth, Health Services Director
Report Title: Contract #23-518-5 with the Reach Air Medical Services, LLC
☒Recommendation of the County Administrator ☐ Recommendation of Board Committee
RECOMMENDATIONS:
APPROVE and AUTHORIZE the Health Services Director, or designee, to execute on behalf of the County Contract #23-518-5 with Reach Air Medical Services, LLC, a limited liability company, to provide air ambulance patient transport services for the period from January 1, 2024 through December 31, 2025.
FISCAL IMPACT:
This is a non-financial agreement. The contractor agrees to pay the required initial and the renewal authorization fees as specified in the Contra Costa Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Agency Fee Policy for each year of this agreement.
BACKGROUND:
This contractor provides air ambulance patient transport services within the jurisdiction of Contra Costa County without interruption, twenty-four (24) hours per day, seven (7) days per week, and fifty-two (52) weeks per year. This contractor is recognized as a multi-jurisdictional air provider, whose jurisdiction of origin is headquartered out of Sacramento County with a base of operations in Concord, Vacaville, and Sacramento. The contractor will work cooperatively with the EMS Agency, allowing the County’s EMS Division, to utilize air ambulance patient transport services. This contractor has been providing these services to the county since January 1, 2013.
On January 11, 2022, the Board of Supervisors approved Contract #23-518-4, with Reach Air Medical Services, LLC for the provision of air ambulance patient transport services, through December 31, 2023.
Approval of Contract #23-518-5 will allow the contractor to continue to provide ambulance patient transport services through December 31, 2025.
CONSEQUENCE OF NEGATIVE ACTION:
If this contract is not approved, the County EMS Division will not be able to utilize the vendor’s service and the County will have to find other means of patient transport services within the jurisdiction of Contra Costa County.