Modern Healthcare

Rural emergency hospital model exposes ambulance service gaps

Anson General Hospital needed to transfer a pediatric patient to a specialist at Cook Children’s Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas, but the only ambulance in Anson wasn’t available. If it had made ...
Noozhawk

Fire Chiefs Urge County to Change Ambulance Model as Lawsuit Continues

Santa Barbara City Fire Chief Chris Mailes says the county should add additional ambulances to its contract. First responders are "increasingly concerned that the county may compromise community life ...
KGW8

Multnomah County agrees on hybrid model for ambulance staffing, a compromise after clash with AMR over late response times

PORTLAND, Ore. — Multnomah County will allow ambulance provider AMR to staff some of its ambulances with one paramedic and one EMT, loosening the county's long-standing 2-paramedic requirement to ...
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‘Lives are threatened’: Portland City Council urges Multco. chair to adopt new ambulance model

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The impact of slow response times from ambulances in Multnomah County is becoming such a vocal issue among local leaders that the Portland City Council has now passed a ...
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AMR still struggling with training, response times despite new ambulance model

Last year, a settlement agreement with AMR for ambulance service allowed for one EMT and one paramedic to staff some ambulances as a way to improve response times.