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The Steubenville, Ohio Fire Department answered its community’s needs, launching EMS in under a year
Looking outside the industry for recruitment and retention best practices
Instead of giving stock to its executive team, Ambulnz gave it to its frontline responders, and paired it with a novel push-to-request dispatch system
Niagara County officials are looking at county-owned, private and hybrid EMS as their contract with Mercy EMS ends
State investigators found that Guard Well Medical Transportation failed to ensure its vehicles were properly staffed during transports and failed to properly train its employees
The proposed ordinance would designate Meadville Central Fire Department as the city’s primary provider in place of the privately owned Meadville Area Ambulance Service
All four people were transported to area hospitals
The private rates remain below those for the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department
Costs and wait times are up and annual memberships are down as Superior Ambulance Service founder Doug Dick is trying to retain EMS providers
Olympia Assistant Fire Chief Mike Buchanan explained that decreasing availability of private providers for BLS calls results in increased on-scene times
Edgar Diaz began misappropriating funds at least as early as 2018, and Hidalgo County EMS shut down in 2021
Houston law enforcement officers said the driver of a black Chevrolet Equinox was probably speeding and did not notice multiple illuminated “wrong way” signs
“This is something I’ll have nightmares about for the rest of my life,” said Alex Pollak, who worked at the concert
Pflugerville leaders hired Acadian Ambulance Service after voters chose not to join an emergency services district
Pflugerville could terminate its EMS service with the fire department in favor of the private ambulance company
Clearwater Fire & Rescue is “getting squeezed” as they work to meet the demand of emergency calls amid the virus surge, Chief Scott Ehlers said
A second ambulance was needed to bring the patient to a hospital after flames burst through the original rig’s roof and hood
Commissioners in Sumter County voted to transfer EMS dispatching duties from AMR to the county
With the acquisition, Empress will have access to EMStar’s bases in Dutchess, Westchester and Putnam counties and service in Rockland, Orange and Ulster counties
A vote this week will decide on creating a new 25-person city ambulance department that would take over service now provided by a private company
TLC Emergency Medical Services is requesting an independent expert analyze the city’s plan to start their own ambulance service for viability
Some companies have left the city due to staffing issues that the remaining services say come down to unsustainable reimbursement rates
Acadian collaborated with the Boy Scouts of America and We Are Blood to expand the programs to Bastrop County
The Decatur Ambulance Regulatory Board meeting Tuesday included lawsuit threats, complaints and a dispute over a heart monitor battery
Under the contract, Falck will be fined $5,000 every time an ambulance takes longer than 24 minutes to arrive at an emergency
Paramedic Brodie Verworn said he decided to start a new service after seeing the rising population strain fire district infrastructure
Nearly 200 people spoke either for or against the switch from AMR to Falck ahead of the long-awaited vote
A long-awaited vote to decide whether the city will switch from American Medical Response to Falck is scheduled for Tuesday
Kenneth B. Ponce, 48, admitted to committing perjury while filling out paperwork about the company’s assets and debts