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HARRY A. ZEITLIN
CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT '
October 8, 2002
James Campain M.D.
Emergency Medical Services Department
P.O. Box 69
5401 West 20th Street
Greeley, Colorado 80632
Weld County Board of Commissioners
do Dave Long, Commissioners
915 Tenth Street
Greeley, CO 80632
Dear Dr. Campain,
This letter is in answer to your letter dated October 1, 2002.
The Eaton Fire Protection District has provided medical reports for over sight to Barb
Foster. As of this date we have not received any feedback from her or her staff. The
reports provided are produced by the departments computer based management
system containing all the information that is required on the Weld County Paper
Form. Moving to these reports was caused by never receiving the computer
generated reports program promised for approximately a year from Aims.
The AED has been used twice this year on EMS Responses. The reports were tuned
in the same day. The department has requested more than once that AED Training
Reports be sent to the department. We still have not received them.
If we were receiving numerous communications from Aims and phone calls you
would not have had to write your letter. E-mails and call backs are routinely
answered the same day or next depending on time and date received. Phone calls to
Aims are answered by a voice mail system at the EMS Office. The Fire Department
hand-delivers correspondence to the EMS department that also does not receive
action, current case in point being a prescription for sterile water to re-supply our kits.
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As fire chief I have a duty to the board of directors and the public to look at all
options for providing fire based EMS training services to the districts' fire fighters.
Managing the fire department and contractors serving the department lies with the fire
department and not with an outside agency. No where in this agreement to establish a
physician advisor service for the Eaton Fire Protection District is there language
limiting our ability to seek a physician advisor, or college based program.
Finally, I disagree that we are in breach of contract under Paragraph(9), but agree
that the relationship under the present agreement has not been to our mutual
satisfaction. Therefore this letter serves as notice of our intent to terminate the
agreement under Paragraph(9C). therein effective on January 1,2003 anniversary
date of the contract.
Yo truly, y4,.
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A. Z lin
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Cc. Board of Directors Eaton Fire Protection District
Dick Lyons attorney of record for the Eaton Fire Protection District
Dave Miller Colorado Pre-hospital Care Program
Barb Foster Weld County EMS Coordinator
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