Mr. Brian K Andrews

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  Published on: 2/1/2009    Last Visited: 2/1/2009  

  Brian K. Andrews, president of County Ambulance, explained at the board's March 24 meeting that ambulance service has always been cooperative with Lanesborough and has opened another station on Dalton Avenue.
  
  Town officials have been concerned over coverage since the closure of American Medical Response last year.
  
  County Ambulance is currently handling 1,000 calls a month. Andrews said the service is still handling Lanesborough the same number of times as before. The service now has eight vehicles (seven guaranteed every day) and there are three or four at the Dalton Avenue station.
  
  Andrews said the operation is licensed for all of Berkshire County but does not go farther north than Lanesborough and not into Cheshire at all. Selectman John Goerlach asked how much it would cost to have daytime coverage. Andrews responded that he would figure it out and advise the board

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  Published on: 6/27/2009    Last Visited: 6/27/2009  

  Brian Andrews, President of County Ambulance says the unit is available for use anywhere in Berkshire County and is the only bariatric equipped ambulance west of Springfield, Mass.
  
  "Some obese patients who needed an ambulance for would often refuse or wait until their condition was so severe they had no choice but to go by ambulance because the old method caused considerable embarrassment," Andrews said.
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  "While nervous to make such an investment not knowing the exact demand for its use we felt it was the right thing to do," said Andrews.

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  Published on: 6/15/2009    Last Visited: 6/15/2009  

  Brian K. Andrews
  
  President
  
  (413)499-2527
  
  bkandrews@countyamb.com
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  Brian is the of County

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  Published on: 7/2/2009    Last Visited: 7/2/2009  

  The president of County Ambulance in Pittsfield, Brian Andrews, said Thursday he had no knowledge or record of such an incident.

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  Published on: 8/1/2007    Last Visited: 8/1/2007  

  The accreditation program was not universally embraced at first, said Brian Andrews, head of County Ambulance in Pittsfield, one of two other county organizations now operating under the accredited program.
  
  "Not everybody was initially prepared to deal with all the components involved, and we saw a lot of people getting out of EMT training," he said."It used to be done by individual EMT instructors who had no affiliation with a teaching institution."
  
  Now, he said, he appreciates the standards set by the state Office of Emergency Medical Services.
  
  County Ambulance, which previously did not offer basic EMT training, will offer its second such class starting Aug. 31.
  
  "In the scheme of things, as you look across the state as a whole, there are uniform policies and procedures about what's expected," Andrews said."This gives us more credibility."
  
  County Ambulance will be teaming up with Berkshire Community College on some future classes as well, he said.
  
  It took a year to complete the accreditation process, he added.

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  Published on: 5/11/2007    Last Visited: 5/11/2007  

  Brian K. Andrews, NREMT-P
  
  Treasurer

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  Published on: 2/15/2008    Last Visited: 2/15/2008  

  "It's definitely been busy," said Brian Andrews, president of County Ambulance.

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  Brian K. Andrews

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  Published on: 11/29/2007    Last Visited: 11/29/2007  

  County Ambulance President Brian Andrews said the 18 new hires were AMR employees who stood to lose their jobs; several of them will work as dispatchers.His company already has 15 emergency medical technicians, or EMTs, and paramedics on its 72-member staff, which also includes drivers of wheelchair-accessible vans under contract with the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority.
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  "(Andrews) assures us he can pick up the slack," he said."I am sure there will be times, if this remains with a single provider, that we will need to wait longer (for an ambulance), but Brian has assured us he is adding personnel and equipment."
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  "I've known (Andrews) for years, and he gets done what he sets out to do, but God bless him, it's a big feat to jump on."
  
  But Andrews said he is confident and prepared for the scrutiny.
  
  "We've been gearing up for this," he said this week."We are confident with the numbers that we are where we need to be, and we have room to absorb more business."
  
  County has added three new ambulances within the past six weeks, for a total of eight emergency vehicles.Andrews said AMR and County are cooperating during the transition, and that the new employees will not switch jobs until Jan. 1.

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  Published on: 10/12/2007    Last Visited: 10/12/2007  

  Brian Andrews, president of County Ambulance Service, said his company is indeed moving to pick up the slack left when AMR leaves.
  
  AMR employees are being interviewed for "at least a dozen full-time openings and a few part-time slots," he said.
  
  "AMR closing makes us a bigger company over here," Andrews said."We know there is going to be a void, so we've already started the process buying more vehicles and interviewing their employees."
  
  The family-owned County Ambulance, which has been working in Pittsfield since 1982, also has a new ambulance unit on the way and is in the process of purchasing others, although it is too early to determine exactly how many they will need.
  
  The decline in reimbursements from insurance companies and Medicare, Andrews said, has been an issue for the industry, but hasn't had as much of an effect on County because "we're a small company, and we don't have a lot of that big corporate overhead."

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