General Discussion

There are tons of things that go into funding these organizations that people never think about. A big driver of this is staff salaries.

Over a decade ago the national standard for training Paramedics changed drastically and a large majority of the training centers for this education went away, so this decreases the available medics in the pool, which created much more competition to get staff.

Another driver of cost is the equipment. Right now the cardiac monitors we have on our trucks are roughly 35k each, those monitors (Lifepak 15's) are coming up on their end of life date, and the updated model is around 70k per unit.

In addition to the the The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), decided that we are now required to have power lift litters on each new truck, they cost anywhere from 25k to 40k (right now anyway).

The funny thing about the NFPA is they are allowed to regulate us, but we are not firefighters, nor part of the fire service.

There are many other things that go into the cost, but these are just a few examples.