Stone County v. Stone County Hospital Ambulance Service

MAXWELL, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Mississippi has a statutory preference for private ambulance services over public ones. And a county cannot contract with a public service if there is an adequate private service operating in the county. Here, Stone County Hospital (Hospital) created a private ambulance service, Stone County Ambulance Service (SCAS), in order to be awarded Stone County’s 2008 annual ambulance-service contract. But after a dispute arose between SCAS and the Stone County Board of Supervisors (Board) over which air ambulance service SCAS had to give priority, SCAS terminated its…