Welcome

The Stevens County Sheriff's Ambulance (SCSA) is a, fee for service ambulance transport service. We operate on the monies we collect for our services. Our Vehicles, supplies, payroll, overhead expenses and our facility are being paid from the revenues we collect for our transport services. We do not use tax based funds to operate the Stevens County Sheriff's Ambulance Service. We are on of the least expensive BLS ambulance transport services in the State. We do not collect monies through an EMS levy or EMS district.

Stevens County Sheriff's Ambulance Crew and Staff

Our crewmembers are paid volunteers; they are paid for only the ambulance runs they are involved in. Crewmembers are not paid for on-call time or in-service training time. We currently have 28 EMT volunteers & 12 Team Rescue volunteers. We also employ 1 full time and 2 part time paid administration staff members.

Every shift we have two complete ambulance crews on call. Each crew consists of two EMT's. We currently have 16 EMT-ILS (Intermediate Life Support) and 12 EMT-B (Basic Life Support) on our ambulance staff.

SCSA is licensed and verified in Washington State as a Basic Life Support ambulance transport agency. Although it is not required our crews always include two EMT's. Each ambulance is equipped with the emergency equipment required by the State of Washington, plus other advance equipment not required for a BLS service.

Support Services

Because our coverage area is so large we depend on First Response Agencies in the out lying areas to medically stabilize patients until we arrive on scene with a transport vehicle. The service they provide is invaluable to the people in Stevens County.

Northwest Medstar is a air transport service that provides emergency transport for critically ill and injured patients in rural areas. Because of ground transport time constraints Northwest Medstar is called in to stabilize and transport patients who need specialized medical care.