QAS INSIGHT | Summer 2017-18 edition

Station profile: Gladstone

GLADSTONE: FAST FACTS

Location Gladstone Ambulance Station is the second largest in Central Queensland, serving communities north to Mount Larcom, south to Boyne Island and west to Calliope. LASN The station is one of 24 located in the Central Queensland LASN which covers 110,000 square kilometres and is managed by Chief Superintendent Steven Coombs. Complement OIC: CCP Leia Spencer since April 6, 2015. One Critical Care Paramedic, 26 Advanced Care Paramedics (21 full time, four part time, one casual), one Paramedic and five Graduate Paramedics. No volunteers presently attached, but there is an Honorary Ambulance Officer located at Mount Larcom. Vehicles The station has two dual-stretcher Mercedes Sprinter vehicles, three single-stretcher Mercedes Sprinters, one Mercedes Patient Transport vehicle, and one Ford Ranger emergency response vehicle, which are used to respond mostly to medical and trauma-related cases. Statistics Last financial year, Gladstone paramedics attended 8,829 cases.

23

Above ■ Leia and some her ‘teal family’ getting into the festive spirit.

Background ■ Gladstone Ambulance Station then and now; the Goondoon Street Centre (left) was built in the 1920s and used until 1967.

Summer 2017–18