Press Release
For Immediate Release
March 14th, 2011
Ambulance New Brunswick Opens New Station in Kingston
KINGSTON, NB – Ambulance New Brunswick’s new Kingston station is now officially open. Ambulance New Brunswick’s President and CEO, Alan Stephen was joined by Hampton-Kings MLA, Bev Harrison (representing the Honourable Madeleine Dubé, Minister of Health) and Mr. Tony Rickett, Chairperson of the Local Service District of Kingston at the official opening ceremony.
“Ambulance New Brunswick has some of the best-trained, most dedicated paramedics, dispatchers, flight nurses and support services personnel in the country and we are committed to providing them with the best tools and facilities possible so they can provide a world class service to New Brunswickers” said Mr. Stephen.
“Eight station grand openings have been held in the past 12 months (Florenceville-Bristol, Cap-Pelé, Fredericton, Boiestown, Belledune, Tracadie-Sheila, Stanley and Petitcodiac)” added Mr. Stephen. In the upcoming months, we look forward to adding Harvey, Hartland and St-Léonard to this list.”
“I am confident the residents of the Kingston region will be well served from this new ambulance station,” said Health Minister Madeleine Dubé. “Ambulance New Brunswick employees are to be commended for their dedication. I look forward to continuing to work with all of our health care partners, including Ambulance New Brunswick, in building a sustainable health-care system.”
The new station in Kingston is an ICF (insulated concrete forms) construction and is resistant to hurricane-force winds and seismic loads. The building has in-floor heating throughout. Furthermore, the exhaust system in the one bay garage is ultra modern as it removes both vehicle exhaust fumes and garage humidity automatically. The garage also has an NO2 detector system which will make an audible alarm warning if exhaust fumes get too high.
“We are very fortunate to have an ambulance service so close” said Mr. Rickett. “On behalf of the Local Service District of Kingston, I would like to thank Ambulance New Brunswick for its commitment to our area.”
Ambulance New Brunswick was created by the Government of New Brunswick in December 2007 to deliver a world-class land, air and emergency dispatch ambulance service throughout the province. Today, Ambulance New Brunswick has more than 900 paramedics stationed across the province. Every year, they respond to approximately 100,000 calls. The air ambulance service performs more than 700 emergency calls every year and flies nearly 600,000 kilometres transporting sick and injured patients to specialized hospital care across the Maritimes and as far as Toronto, London and Montreal.
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Media contact:
Sophie Cormier-Lalonde
External Communications Officer
Ambulance New Brunswick
506-872-6579
sophie.cormier-lalonde@smunbems.ca