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Is a donation fund drive compatible with establishing compassionate billing? Yes. Compassionate billing, if established, will help us maintain existing service levels. Donations help us grow. Many EMS organizations across Virginia and the US do both. — Kempsville Volunteer Rescue Squad (VBRescue) (@kvrs.org) November 30, 2024 at 11:27 AM Compassionate billing + Donations = Maintenance… Continue reading Funding algebra

We’re now on Bluesky as https://bsky.app/profile/kvrs.org. Check out the Wikipedia article about Bluesky and what Bluesky has to say about itself. At the bottom of our website, the following icon leads to our Bluesky profile: We’re using that generic link icon for now because our website’s software (a custom WordPress instance) doesn’t yet support Bluesky’s… Continue reading Follow us on Bluesky

We're emergently procuring 2 factory standard ambulances thanks to Va Beach City Council. They'll arrive sooner than the 4 custom-spec ones we already have on order. It's been a challenge nationwide to get new ambulances ever since COVID. Current fleet is requiring more & more maintenance. — Kempsville Volunteer Rescue Squad (VBRescue) (@kvrs.org) November 29,… Continue reading We’re fast-track purchasing 2 new ambulances

We support (and were one of the original champions of) establishing "compassionate billing" for Virginia Beach's EMS system. The goal is to collect money already available from insurance plans to support our operations. Expenses are skyrocketing. We must pursue this additional source of revenue. — Kempsville Volunteer Rescue Squad (VBRescue) (@kvrs.org) November 29, 2024 at… Continue reading We support compassionate billing

At the Virginia Beach Rescue Council (VBRC), the Vice President seat most recently held by KVRS Captain Marisa Rifenburgh has been assumed by KVRS President Kevin Lipscomb. The Virginia Beach Rescue Council, or VBRC, is a democratic forum for the leadership of all ten of the city’s volunteer rescue squads, plus the city’s volunteer EMS… Continue reading VB Rescue Council leader seat goes from one KVRS leader to another

KVRS members have been extremely busy adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fortunately we have a relatively good inventory of PPE. Our members have been learning and adapting to frequent and major changes in clinical protocols and operational guidelines as the outbreak has progressed. Our volunteers have not shied away from their duty obligations and are… Continue reading COVID-19

Thanks to emergency grants from the state and the city, we’ve been able to place orders for two brand new ambulances to replace those destroyed by Hurricane Matthew!

KVRS responded to more than 25 calls per day (transporting more than 17 patients per day) in 2016, average.

Hurricane Matthew delivered disastrous flooding across the city, and as we worked to help people suffering illnesses and injuries, two of our ambulances sustained flooding that was bad enough that the vehicles were declared total losses. This represents an overnight loss of one-third of our fleet.