The City of Yuma Ambulance Service provides Advanced Life Support care both on-scene and for inter-facility transfers. We operate a fleet of 4 ambulances and utilize a Quick Response Vehicle to ensure a rapid response to critical calls. Our 911 response area covers approximately 1100 square miles of both Yuma and Washington counties. Additionally, the Yuma Ambulance Service provides mutual aid response to surrounding areas including Wray and Washington, Phillips, and Logan counties.
Mission Statement
Our mission is to deliver timely Advanced Life Support care of the highest quality. We strive to regularly participate in continuing education to ensure that our rural community receives the best pre-hospital care available. We promise to commit our knowledge, skills, time, and resources to provide professional emergency medical services for the community that exceeds the needs and expectations of those who require our assistance.
Director
Keriann Josh, NRP
Medical Director
Dr. John Glick, MD
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Notice of Privacy Practices
This notice describes how confidential information about you may be used and disclosed and how you can get access to this information. Please review it carefully.
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This Notice of Privacy Practices describes how the City of Yuma Ambulance Service and its affiliates may use and disclose your confidential health information, known as Protected Health Information (“PHI”), in the course of treatment, payment, or other health care operations and for other purposes authorized or required by law. The Notice also describes your rights with respect to your PHI and explains how you may exercise those rights.
The City of Yuma Ambulance Service is required by law to maintain the privacy of PHI and to provide you with notice of its legal duties and privacy practices with respect to PHI. We are required to abide by the terms of the Notice of Privacy Practices currently in effect. We reserve the right to change the terms of this Notice at any time and to make new notice provisions effective immediately for all PHI that we maintain. Any changes to the Notice will be available in our offices, in each ambulance and posted to our web site if we maintain one at the time of the change. You also may request a copy of the new Notice the next time that you visit our office, or we will give you a copy of the new Notice the next time we provide health care services to you.
How We Use and Disclose Your Protected Health Information
Uses and Disclosures of Protected Health Information for Treatment, Payment, and Health Care Operations
The City of Yuma Ambulance Service may use and disclose your PHI for the purposes of treatment, payment for our services, and health care operations (“TPO”), as described below. For those times when we are required by state or federal laws to ask your permission, you will be asked to sign a consent to permit us to disclose your PHI for TPO. We will ask you to sign the consent at the beginning of your care so as to avoid delaying the delivery of health care services to you.
Examples of our uses and disclosures of your PHI for TPO include:
Treatment
We may use and disclose your PHI, in writing, electronic form and verbally, to provide and coordinate the delivery of emergency health care and other transportation services for you. We may communicate with your doctor, the doctors and staff of the hospitals and other facilities to or from which you are transported, dispatch centers, and other emergency service providers. We may transmit or receive your PHI via radio, telephone, or computer. We may give the hospital or other facility to which you are transported a copy of the written record (run sheet) we create when we treat and transport you.
Payment
We may use and disclose your PHI, as necessary, to obtain payment for the health care services that we provide to you. This includes preparing and submitting bills to insurers, health plans, and other payers, either directly or through a third party billing company. We also may use and disclose your PHI for eligibility or coverage determinations, medical necessity determinations and reviews, pre-authorizations of services and other utilization review activities, management of claims, and collection of outstanding accounts.
Health Care Operations
We may use and disclose your PHI, as necessary, to perform the business operations of our company. This includes such activities as quality management, performance reviews, licensing, accreditation, training programs, and business management and administration. We also may use and disclose your PHI for such purposes as obtaining legal and financial services, business planning, processing complaints, data collection, fundraising, research, and certain marketing activities for our company.