Kyle Adams is reporting in The Daily Mail he Greene County Ambulance Task Force now has response time data and tentative performance goals in its possession. The group was appointed last winter to explore steps to improving the county's EMS operations. The draft report was presented to the task force Tues., July 8, by consultant Paul A. Bishop of the Center for Governmental Research in Rochester. The report contained detailed response-time data for most of the county’s 16 agencies and presented with Bishop’s initial recommendations for target response times. Currently, 90 percent of Advanced Life Support calls countywide are responded to within 22 minutes, according to the report. Bishop recommended the task force consider the county in two parts, mountaintop and valley, in designing a new EMS system, given the substantial demographic and geographic differences. The next task is to develop a deployment model detailing the number of ambulances, with what staffing and in what locations are needed to meet the target response times. The final report is expected at the task force’s next meeting on Sept. 9. Read the full story in The Daily Mail.