Bud Owens, FMC EMS director
The new location provides the department with a Cedartown headquarters to better meet the needs of residents in West Polk County. Floyd also has two emergency medical stations in Rockmart.
“As part of Floyd’s new management agreement, we will be utilizing our base station out of Polk Medical Center,” said Bud Owens, director of Floyd EMS. “We will house one 24-hour advanced life support ambulance and one 12-hour advanced life support ambulance in Polk County.
“We feel like we have built a great base of support in Rockmart. This is an extension of what we have already been doing in Polk County since July 2009.”
Because Floyd is not the designated EMS provider for the Polk County 911 system, residents who want Floyd EMS to care for them must specifically ask for a Floyd ambulance when dialing 911.
According to Owens, “We will house one 24-hour advanced life support ambulance and one 12-hour advanced life support ambulance in Polk County. That is 1 1/2 ambulances in Polk County. Does that really mean one in Rockmart and then one and a half in Cedartown. That still doesn't add up to three. I say 1/2 because the truck is only 12 hours... so at times there will just be two. This is just about as confusing as the facts (or rather lack of facts)surroundng the acquisition of the hospital in Polk. Floyd Medical Center executives are sounding more and more like used car salesmen everyday.