The purchase of two new ambulances at Baxter Regional Medical Center is expected to impact more than 10,000 lives in Baxter and Marion counties.
As part of its current community fundraising campaign for the purchase of two new ambulances, staff from the local medical center and the hospital foundation spoke to the Mountain Home Rotary Club earlier this month. The new ambulances would replace two units with over 430,000 miles on them.
The average ambulance stays in service for five to seven years, but some in the fleet at BRMC have been traveling the roads of Baxter and Marion counties and beyond for more than 16 years.
For $200,000, BRMC hopes to purchase two 2019 Ford E450 ambulances that would be on the roads by December of this year. If the new ambulances perform as well as their predecessors, they will travel nearly 500,000 miles each and impact more than 10,000 lives. Hospital ambulance personnel expect the new vehicles to exceed these goals, as their hope is to continue to invest in industry-leading equipment for their ambulance fleet over the next few years.
Those wishing to make a one-time, tax-deductible donation to the Baxter Regional Hospital Foundation or set up a reoccurring contribution can do so by visiting baxterregional.org/ambulance. For more information, contact the hospital foundation at (870) 508-1770.
Pictured are (front row, left to right) Foundation Gift Officer Justin Woods; Rotarian and Foundation Board Member Heather Knight-Loftis; Rotarian and BRMC Chief Financial Officer Debra Henry; Foundation Director of Development Cindy Costa; Rotarian and Hospital Board Member Steven Sanders, Jr.; (back row) BRMC Director of Marketing Tobias Pugsley; Ambulance Supervisor Chris Fry; Rotarian and Foundation Executive Director Barney Larry; Rotarian and BRMC Board Member Sally Gilbert; Rotary President Mark Hopper; Rotarian and Foundation Board Member Matthew Taylor; Rotarian and BRMC Board Member Lang Zimmerman.
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