Community project funding/congressionally directed spending - construction - we are in need of a new ambulance

This federal Project Grant award of $431,000 was provided by the Healthcare Systems Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Congressional Directives (CFDA 93.493) program. The grant will be used by the Town of Ashland, Maine to purchase a specialized 2024 Ford F-550 four-wheel drive ambulance equipped with state-of-the-art technology. This ambulance will enhance emergency medical services for Ashland's 2,350 square mile service area, which includes rural and remote areas of northern Maine. The award will ensure the town can continue to provide timely and reliable emergency response capabilities to the community. The project period runs from September 30, 2024 through September 29, 2027.

We currently serve about 2,350 square miles. We have one of the biggest service areas in the state of maine. This ambulance is necessary to ensure that we can continue to service this area and surrounding communities. Due to the fact that most of our service area is in the north maine woods, and on roads that are not paved or plowed most of the time, we need an ambulance that can sustain the use required for these roads. We need to purchase an ambulance that is four wheel drive and has a better suspension to withstand these roads. This will ensure that we can get to where we need to be safely and in a timely manner. This not only will get US there but will provide a better environment with state of the art technology to enable US to provide the quality of care that is needed. This is a vehicle that we as service providers and the community can depend on. This ambulance will be a 2024 ford f-550 truck chassis with a braun box attached to IT. Braun is the company that will design the inside and outside of the patient compartment of the ambulance. This will be the area the patients are getting into and being transported to the hospital in. Braun has the best technology in this type of equipment.