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The GO2VENT by Vortran is a gas-powered device worth considering for disaster plans
Doug Wolfberg raises concerns about New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ mental health directive
“EMS providers are effectively being required to intervene and transport persons merely because they are homeless and apparently mentally ill”
Cleveland Clinic’s new helicopters will expand the ability to transport in bad weather
The changes under the approved deal include more retroactive pay for Providence nurses whose contracts expired before December 2024
Nearly 75% of nonfatal private sector attacks in 2021 and 2022 were directed at healthcare and social assistance workers at a rate more than five times the national average
Bill makes it so health providers can no longer block someone from supplying their own blood, except in emergencies.
West York Borough Police Officer Andrew Duarte died in a shooting inside UPMC Memorial Hospital
The funding for Trinity Health Oakland Hospital came as a gift from the estate of two Oakland County residents
About 20% of Louisiana’s Medicaid patients visit emergency rooms an average of 17 times per year, often for non-urgent issues or due to social barriers like lack of transportation,
Morris Hospital recognized EMS System Coordinator Ed Ludwig for his committed to innovation and improvement
North Star Health Alliance was denied a CON to create an ambulance service for inter-facility patient transfers
The nurse at the Kaiser Permanente’s Redwood City Medical Center was pinned between a hospital bed and the machine
Enfield EMS is the fourth agency in New England to establish a whole blood program
Orangeburg officials are asking MUSC Health-Orangeburg administrators to address complaints
Be prepared for Super Bowl-related emergencies, from avocado mishaps to cardiac arrest
Managing high-risk/difficult refusals with the FEARS mnemonic
Officials from the Oxford Center in Brighton said nothing like this has happened in over 15 years of providing hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Upstate’s ED has been know for years for being too busy and too small to meet the demand of being the region’s only Level 1 trauma center
Based at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the GO-TEAM is breaking barriers between prehospital and hospital care
Crozer Health’s reassigning ambulances to cover non-emergency transfers means fewer rigs available to respond to emergencies
UMass Memorial Health announced a plan to build in Nashoba Valley after Nashoba Valley Medical Center closed
First Response accused Decatur and Decatur Morgan Hospital of conspiring to create conditions where First Response would lose its certificate of public necessity and convenience
Gov. Janet Mills’ budget includes cuts to Medicaid reimbursement rates for hospital-affiliated doctors, nurse practitioners and other healthcare providers
13 chiefs wrote to Gov. Maura Healy to keep EMS from collapsing following the closing of Nashoba Valley Medical Center
Thousands of health professionals at Providence Health & Services in Portland are striking for better compensation, working conditions and staffing
10 lawmakers sent a letter to Governor Kathy Hochul, pressing her to include money for Upstate University Hospital in the upcoming state budget
An Elite EMS crew is stationed at the Sharon Regional Medical Center for walk-ins following the hospital’s closure due to bankruptcy
An Overland Park ambulance crew “raided their own pantry” after they found an empty ED snack room and nurses held over due to the snow
12 residents and three staff members of the Mount Carmel Senior Living Community were among those transported to a hospital
Grant funding and a donation will allow the Plaistow Fire Department to begin a pilot paramedic intercept program
Thomasville Regional Medical Center was supposed to improve access to care in the state’s Black Belt
Presbyterian Healthcare Services’ $6M Healthcare Advanced Learning Lab will be used to train first responders
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