(La Porte, IN) – Paramedics with La Porte County Emergency Management Service are getting accustomed to the new ambulance station in La Porte. 

The former ambulance base was torn down to make room for the new La Porte Hospital scheduled to open at State St. and Tyler St. next month.  The new ambulance base, just a short distance from the old location, is also on State St. near the current hospital.

EMS Director Andrew McGuire said the new facility is similar in space but designed to provide more room than what the old EMS base contained in some areas.  There’s also room for a few extra beds for medics to sleep during their long shifts at the new facility.  “We opened up some walls and changed things around,” he said.

The new ambulance station is a wood frame structure as opposed to the brick exterior of the old building.  LaPorte Hospital paid for much, if not, all of the $1 million dollar cost of the move.

EMS has been contracted to move patients from the old hospital to the new hospital on October 24.