Today marks Day Three of the Los Pollos Fire-Rescue Department's new transport policy. This new Policy allows city owned ambulance crews to pick and choose which patients they transport or not.
Read More »Envision Healthcare to Require College Degrees
In a long-anticipated move, Envision Healthcare, parent corporation of American Medical Response, MedicWest Ambulance Service, River Medical and several other ambulance services as well as PHI air-ambulance, will require all lead-position clinical employees to have a minimum of an Associate’s ...
Read More »New York EMS to Stop Treating Patients With Medicine in Favor of Oxygen
Paramedics in a large New York city will no longer be exercising clinical discretion or treating patients with medications or fluids in favor of high-flow, per their management. In a recent mass email to the workforce, new General Manager Tim ...
Read More »CMS Budget Cut Mandates “Standardization” of EMS Levels, Clarifies Care Rules
On January 1, 2014, a little-read portion of the Affordable Care Act will be implemented in Medicare’s CMS bureau, the agency charged with reimbursing ambulance providers for the vast majority of their transports.
Read More »Ghost Hunters Crew Proves Ghosts Exist
Deep in the hollows of a misty Mississippi night, Zack Bagans and his camera crew expected to find something- but what they found in that Vicksberg battlefield-cum-salvage yard was confirmation that the paranormal exists. They had come to Vicksberg to speak with ...
Read More »Acadian Ambulance To Screen Facebook
Diane Hanson, Acadian Ambulance HR representative, recently announced that Acadian Ambulance and its corporate siblings would be screening prior social-media posts for signs of instability in employees.
Read More »AMR To Cut Hours For EMTs; Cites Obamacare as Reason
American Medical Response Cuts Hours Citing Obamacare; Joins Regal Cinemas and Carl’s Jr. Ambulance provider American Medical Response today announced that it is going to cut thousands of its EMT-Basic and EMT-Intermediate jobs from full-time 40-hour weeks and overtime to ...
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