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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – The controversial debate surrounding Multnomah County’s ambulance crisis is expected to end this week as the county considers a plan that, if passed, would lead to major ...
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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – 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. But during a ...
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 ...
SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego plans to fundamentally change ambulance service in the city by taking authority over billing and staffing away from private ambulance provider Falck, Fire Chief Colin ...
SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — San Diego and its struggling private ambulance provider have reached a deal that fundamentally changes their partnership by giving the city control over staffing, ambulance ...
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 ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A bicyclist who was critically injured near the Hawthorne Bridge was rushed to hospital for treatment by a Portland Fire & Rescue crew because the nearest AMR ambulance was 20 ...
Patients across the South East will benefit from more consistent, high-quality ambulance care as (SCAS) and (SECAmb) come ...
Both NHS foundation trusts will "continue to operate independently" but will have a single chief executive and chairperson, ...