History of Weld County Paramedic Services.
Weld County Paramedic Services was formed on September 16, 1974 when the privately owned Greeley Ambulance Company failed financially.
Pre-hospital emergency medical care was considered to be an essential service to the residents and guests of Weld County, so at that time a joint agreement between the City of Greeley and Weld County provided tax monies to the ambulance company for financial stability during the transition to a county department.
Paramedic level advanced life support services were added on July 1, 1977 and on February 1, 1981 Paramedic level advanced life support serves were added to the Fort Lupton sub-station.
In January of 1986, WCPS was converted to an enterprise fund (fee for service), and all tax subsidies ceased in 1989. It has been a self supporting company since then.
Mission Statement:
“The Mission of Weld County Paramedic Services is to provide the highest professional quality, cost-effective mobile health care to all of our customers.”
Paramedic Services:
Weld County covers an area of approximately 4,000 square miles in north central Colorado. It is bordered on the north by the states of Wyoming and Nebraska, and on the south by the Denver metropolitan area. Weld County is the third largest county in Colorado, Weld County has an area that is greater than all of Rhode Island, Delaware and the District of Columbia combined.
Weld County Paramedic Services as part of their mission provides the 9-1-1 emergency medical services care and transportation to estimated 235,000 citizens and visitors within the county and has done so for over 34 years.
Employees:
Weld County Paramedic Services operates with approximately 50 full time employees and another approximately 50 part time employees. Included in the full time employees is an Office Manager that oversees all of the billing aspects of our service and 4 billing office personnel.
Staffing:
Throughout the Weld County service area, the department operates with 7 Advanced Life Support (ALS) ambulances and a Supervisor at our highest staffing levels and with 4 ambulances and a Supervisor at our lowest staffing levels.
These ambulances are staffed with either a Paramedic / EMT combination or Paramedic / Paramedic combination on others. Additionally Weld County Paramedic Services has 1 mental health transport van staffed with an EMT.
To view the Organizational Chart for WCPS please click on the link below:
Calls For Service:
Weld County Paramedic Services will respond to approximately 15,500 calls this year. The calls range from 911 emergency calls for service to basic routine transfers to nursing homes.
Weld County Paramedic Services serves both rural and urban areas seeing a wide variety of trauma and medical calls with varying degrees of acuity.
Transport times will vary from five minutes to over an hour.