Community

COMMITMENT TO OUR COMMUNITY - Medic Ambulance Thanks Community!

Medic continues to give back to the community by participating in civic organizations and leading boards and councils as well as contributing financially to worthy causes. Medic also is uniquely qualified to serve as a credible and accurate news source for public information and a skilled and experienced teacher of EMS-related community education. As an ambassador for the EMS system, Medic Ambulance Service is honored to reach out to many more citizens than simply those we transport.

Funding

Medic Ambulance self-funds its community outreach programs. There is no cost to any organizations to which Medic is a sponsor, participant, or a member. Medic’s current and past notable community involvement (as a member, volunteer, or financial contributor including in-kind) involves the following local civic groups, charities, and events:

Solano County Fair

Medic Ambulance is a provider of special event medical standby teams for the Solano County Fair. During the 20 years we have been involved with the Fair, our services have expanded along with the sophistication of the EMS system and growing commitment to keep event participants and attendees safe. Medic’s County Fair special event medical standby teams offer first aid stations, ambulance exhibits, and EMS equipment.

High School Football Game(s) Special Event Medical Standby

Medic Ambulance is especially proud of its efforts to impact player and spectator safety during high school’ football games. Medic Ambulance also believes that ambulance crews’ visibility during these very public games promotes consideration of EMS careers. The company has offered these special event medical standbys for the football programs at the following schools:

All high schools in the Vallejo Unified School District;
All high schools in the Benicia Unified School District;
All high school in the Fairfield Unified School District;
All high schools in the San Juan Unified School District;
Rio Vista High School
Dixon High School

The Run to Feed the Hungry

An annual event in Sacramento in support of the Sacramento Food Bank, Medic provides standby coverage for this event that draws nearly 30,000 participants. Medic provides staffing at First Aid stations, a paramedic bike team, a Supervisor Unit, our MCI Unit and 4 fully staffed ALS paramedic ambulances.

Fiesta Days

Medic provides ALS ambulance standby services and staffs the first aid stations.

March of Dimes

Medic Ambulance volunteers an ALS ambulance standby for March of Dimes events. The ALS ambulance standby fees are waived as an in-kind donation to the March of Dimes.

Suisun National Night Out

Medic Ambulance seeks ways to reinforce relationships with other public safety agencies in the County. During the Suisun City Police Department’s National Night Out celebration, Medic Ambulance donates free ambulance standby services to help ensure safety on the streets while the city’s law enforcement officers attend their event.

Medic Ambulance’s Charity Extends to International Communities

Medic Ambulance is commitment to offering services throughout California with our disaster strike teams. We also reach out internationally by donating retired ambulances from our fleet to countries in need. In total, Medic has donated 26 ambulances over the last 8 years to Los Bomberos of Northern California which directed the units to the La Paz, Todos Santos, Los Planinos, and Los Mochis communities in Sinaloa, Mexico.

Medic Ambulance Donates Ambulances for County Causes

Medic Ambulance also donated two ambulances to the Volunteers of America organization and one ambulance to Cats About Town, a volunteer organization whose members seek out lost and/or sick pet cats. They use the donated ambulance to store veterinary supplies and to transport lost or sick felines.

Medic Parades Its Ambulances and Staff for July 4th Celebrations

Medic Ambulance always participates in the Fairfield and Vallejo Fourth of July parades. This positive visibility and local involvement serves as perhaps the only experience citizens will enjoy with the company. We know this type of EMS System awareness instills confidence and trust in EMS.

Ambulance Tours for Local Community Colleges

Upon request, Medic Ambulance arranges ambulance tours for local community college EMT classes. EMT students enjoy seeing the work environment for a Medic Ambulance EMT. It affords us an opportunity to begin a relationship, however budding, with potential future employees.

Christmas Gifts for Convalescent home patients

Every Christmas over the past decade, Medic Ambulance has chosen one Convalescent Center in its service area as the recipient for Medic’s Christmas Gifts for the residents. We also offer free ambulance transport to residents’ homes on a per-request basis.

Medic’s ‘Vial of Life’ Program

Medic Ambulance sponsors at no cost to the citizens of Solano and Sacramento Counties our Vial of Life program. During community health fairs and other events we provide community education on the use and storage of patient information. We also supply Kaiser Permanente’s Vallejo-based patients with the vials. Kaiser Permanente’s members are instructed in the use of the vials and asked to store them in home refrigerators.