Two Colorado Public Safety Agencies Join The Family Of Aladtec Users
RIVER FALLS, Wis. (PRWEB) September 06, 2018 -- First-responders from a pair of high-profile Colorado communities have joined the family of Aladtec users.
The Durango Fire & Rescue, a combination full-time and volunteer fire department, and the Aspen Ambulance District recently subscribed to the cloud-based scheduling and workforce management software.
Aspen Ambulance was familiar with the program, having shared a version with neighboring agencies Roaring Fork Fire & EMS and Basalt Fire for the past eight years, but leaders decided they wanted their own stand-alone scheduling program, said Damien Coniglio, operations supervisor.
"We feel that Aladtec has made our scheduling pretty seamless in the past, and look forward to continuing using Aladtec," Coniglio said in an e-mail exchange.
Aspen Ambulance's 32-person staff provides 24/7 emergency care to the region. Aspen Ambulance is expected to soon relocate to new quarters across from Aspen Valley Hospital. The $6 million facility is about four times larger than its 25-year-old predecessor and will have space for four ambulances, crew bunk rooms, kitchen, laundry, and training spaces.
Aspen is about 15 miles south of Snowmass and 18 miles from Basalt, on Hwy. 82.
The 150 full-time, part-time and volunteer members of Durango Fire & Rescue began using the Aladtec platform in early July.
Durango Fire Protection District protects about 325 square miles and a populous of roughly 16,000 people from 16 fire stations strategically placed within district boundaries. That district runs 58 miles along the US 550 corridor from the New Mexico state line to San Juan County.
In 2016, the department responded to 5,080 calls.
By call volume, the district’s EMS system is the seventh busiest in the state, Scott Sholes, the district’s Emergency Medical Services chief, told the Durango Herald recently. Durango Fire Protection District does not include the City of Durango but instead provides services to the City of Durango under a voter-approved multi-year contract.
Aladtec, labeled "software-as-a-service," in computer parlance, streamlines the process managers use to build complicated schedules. It uses e-mail and texting tools to allow employees to trade shifts, request time-off, and be notified of open shifts anywhere they have phone- or internet connectivity.
The program also allows agencies to build and host electronic forms to document daily station routines like ambulance drug inventories, apparatus equipment, and mechanical checks. Administrators can also track staff members' licenses and certifications, upload files that members can access remotely, and send out text- and e-mail notifications to individuals or groups when the need arises to fill an open shift or staff a special event.
Aladtec, Inc. is headquartered in River Falls, Wis. The software was first developed in 2003 to solve scheduling problems at a rural ambulance service. The firm has continued to grow and now serves more than 2,100 fire, police, EMS, dispatch- and healthcare facilities across the U.S. and Canada.
Forty-four other Colorado agencies also use Aladtec, including ambulance and fire services, law enforcement, dispatch centers, healthcare facilities, security services, and a utility.
For more information, visit http://www.aladtec.com, or call #888-749-5550.
Steve Dzubay, Aladtec, Inc., http://www.aladtec.com, +1 8887495550, [email protected]
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