Emergency medical services in Yosemite National Park may change after the first of the year. The current contract for the Yosemite Medical Clinic expires at the end of the year, and no successful vendors have been identified to take it over.

According to Chief Ranger Charles Cuvelier, the concession contract, currently held by Doctors’ Medical Center in Modesto, will expire at the end of December. A new prospectus was developed, but the solicitation was withdrawn after no one bid on it.

“Protection staff continue to collaborate to look at alternatives to a concessions contract,” Cuvelier wrote in the Park’s daily report on Sept. 8. “The Park is committed to maintaining a clinic after the current contract expires, and to that end has entered into a dialogue with future providers under others types of agreements.”

The details are “uncertain,” according to Cuvelier. The clinic provides emergency trauma and medical response, occupational health, general practice, public health and behavioral health services. Those services are currently provided 24 hours a day.

“The current team is on an aggressive schedule to identify a solution considering the continuity of care an individual needs while accepting the financial realities and the current state of health care in America,” Cuvelier wrote in the daily report.

There may be changes in operating hours and level of service in the future. “We remain focused on identification of a solution,” Cuvelier said.

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