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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1981)
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J Jc^Jc SOUTH EAST ASIA TODAY A REPORT ON VIETNAM, KAMPUCHEASf (Cambodia) and Thailand Speaker: (Don Luce) • Director of the Asian Centre in N Y. • Human Rights Activist • Just returned from a fact finding visit to Vietnam, Cambodia, and Thailand May 8th, 1981 Friday EMU Forum 7:00 p.m. ftfejw^wajigjrMrrurBiig ii.., ii n J2JHU Cultural Forum Presents Dr. Joseph Blasi □□□□ □ODD □Bdd D iO 3D ddqq Span D £**0D □ □DDDQ a ogoao, □conns ODDdHB • Social Studies lecturer at Harvard Director of the project for Kibbutz Studies at 1 larvard Speaking on ‘ 'Corporate R it tureen ys and the Politics of l/ ’ot her (Ketiership ' Thursday, May 7 8:00 p.m. 150 Geology Free admission t hr i.Ml C.ultuml /omni i> u <tu<hnt >/>nn.<nri(J, <liu/t nt run tii^nniziiliun. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiM Emerald graphic City officials try to clear hazy ambulance picture By RICHARD WAGONER Of the Emerald The fate of Eugene’s ambulance service remained unknown Wednesday afternoon as Medical Services, Inc., continued operations despite threats by its owner that the service would shut down. The cities of both Eugene and Springfield are providing ambulance service in addition to the financially plagued MSI, which has operated an ambulance business in the Eugene-Springfield area for the past 23 years. Eugene and MSI officials met late Wednes day afternoon to "clear up the confusion" sur rounding the apparent demise of MSI, according to Eugene city representative Carol Baker. "It's confusing to the public because they don’t know where to call," Baker says. "We want to clear up the confusion.” MSI owner Bill Leonard surprised city of ficials Tuesday when he threatened to shut down his business by 5 p.m. Tuesday after hearing complaints about service from a local emergency room physician. Leonard’s attorney later retracted the am bulance operator’s statement saying MSI would continue to operate. But MSI's bankruptcy consultant Louis Sen nick says MSI paramedics are quitting to take jobs with the cities of Eugene and Springfield, leaving the fate of MSI in even greater doubt. Meanwhile, the City of Springfield Wednes day morning suspended MSI’s license to operate. Springfield City Manager Steve Burkett says the city council will hold a public hearing tentatively set for May 18 to decide whether to revoke or reinstate MSI’s operating license MSI employees reportedly were evacuating the business’s Springfield office Wednesday and were moving out equipment. Eugene firefighters had answered about a half-dozen ambulance calls by 10 a m. Wednes day morning with no major problems, says fire department representative Timothy Birr. Birr says Eugene filled the ambulance gap Tuesday by borrowing ambulances from Leban on, Albany and Salem and staffing them with three paramedics who already work for the department. Other paramedics from Lebanon arrived Wednesday as temporary help, and Birr says the city will hire other temporary paramedics until a final decision on the status of ambulance service is reached. Springfield began its ambulance operation Wednesday by borrowing ambulances from Oak ridge and the McKenzie Rural Fire Protection District and staffing them with former MSI em ployees. Both Eugene paramedics and MSI employees have responded to some of the same emergen cies since the transition, Birr says, but no prob lems between the two groups have developed. “If MSI has the situation under control, we leave it to them,” Birr says. "The relationships between our people and their’s have been quite agreeable.” Leonard’s announcement that he would shut down his service came at an Emergency Medical Services Task Force meeting Tuesday afternoon. Physician John Mackey told the task force that emergency room physicians of the three Eugene-Springfield hospitals have lost con fidence in MSI’s ability to produce a stable work force of paramedics. 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