SLO County’s ambulance service proposals will open in January

January 2027 will kick off a competitive bidding process to find San Luis Obispo County’s next ambulance provider, with the contract awarded to the most cost-effective and efficient medical service provider. Following months of back-and-forth at local city council meetings between San Luis Ambulance—which has held the service exclusively for 80 years—and six cities demanding the chance to review other options, stakeholders repeated their opinions to the Board of Supervisors at the Nov. 3 meeting. “When you talk about the standards of cover, the response time, the thought of those local ambulances going away and becoming ambulances that work on a roving model basis is very concerning to our community,” Morro Bay Mayor Carla Wixom told supervisors. “This AMR [American Medical Response], [Global Medical Response]-owned KKR, all private equity firms, are traded on the New York Stock Exchange and beholded to a corporate spreadsheet, not to a local community.

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