TriStar Greenview Hospital is approved for ambulance service in BG

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – TriStar Greenview Hospital in Bowling Green will begin offering an ambulance service sometime in 2025, says CEO Mike Sherrod.

The news comes after the final approval of from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services of Kentucky. This will give residents of Warren County another option for emergency medical services as well as open up options for treatment options and transfers that may not be currently available.

“Nobody ever wants to have a delay for a patient or you can’t get a transfer out. You know, that’s timely. And I think if anything just adds some relief to to all services, you know, where we can make sure that we work together. But we always are putting our community and our members first,” Sherrod said.

Currently, the service is planned to be run out of a facility located at the TriStar Greenview campus, but Sherrod says the overall plan is to allow for multiple hubs that will allow for faster response times. This will not, however, burden taxpayers, as it will be run on a similar scheme to the current Med Center Health operation.

“We’re not going to burden the taxpayers or whatnot. And if anything, it should actually be a tax free system that actually elevates the availability of trucks on the road to be able to answer those calls and to be timely,” Sherrod said.

The Warren County Fiscal Court had some members that were skeptical of allowing another service to operate in the county. The partnership with Med Center has been ongoing since 1980. The partnership has been great, says judge executive Doug Gorman, who was also initially against the two previous attempts by TriStar Greenview to begin operating in the county. But now it is law.

“It’s one of those things that the legislature passed. So, we plan on doing everything we can to make it a net positive for Warren County. We’re not going to look back. We will look forward. But our intention is to have the best ambulance service possible at no cost to taxpayers,” Gorman said.

Looking to the future, it seems that residents of Warren County will be given more options, but this will only run smoothly after many different particulars have been worked out. That is where the process currently stands.