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New FDNY order sending patients to closest hospital provokes backlash: ‘Stupid — in a word’
The new policy is too rigid and undermines patient safety and care, said Dr. Bret Rudy, executive vice president and chief of hospital operation at NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn.
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Chester, Aston Township latest to contract for ambulance services
Chester for ALS and BLS and Aston for ALS, both filling the impending void expected with Crozer Health’s demise.
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Chester scores ambulance coverage, narrowly avoids lengthy lapse in emergency care
The imminent breakdown of Crozer Health, Delaware County’s largest health system, is leaving many communities without proper ...
After relying on Crozer for EMS services for decades, Upper Darby is spending $1M to hire a Drexel Hill company
A Drexel Hill ambulance company will take over EMS services for Upper Darby on Monday as Crozer Health phases out the services it has provided to Delaware County for decades. Prospect Medical Holdings ...
With paramedics spread thin, Honolulu dusts off a possible solution
Honolulu’s paramedics and emergency medical technicians are burned out from working so much overtime in an agency that is perpetually understaffed, sometimes to the point that ambulances sit idle ...
First day of Karen Read retrial’s concludes with testimony from two key witnesses. Here’s how it unfolded.
Lawyers for Read say she was framed and that O’Keefe entered the house, owned at the time by a fellow Boston officer, where ...