Yahoo

AMR still struggling with training, response times despite new ambulance model

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 ...
Modern Healthcare

Rural emergency hospital model exposes ambulance service gaps

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 ...
Noozhawk

Fire Chiefs Urge County to Change Ambulance Model as Lawsuit Continues

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 ...
KGW8

Multnomah County agrees on hybrid model for ambulance staffing, a compromise after clash with AMR over late response times

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 ...

This AI system can diagnose sepsis with 99% accuracy before it becomes life-threatening

Using medical data from sick patients while they're still at home, traveling in an ambulance and receiving care in the ...
KOIN 6

Multnomah County’s ambulance crisis poised to end two years after AMR raised the alarm

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 ...
Yahoo

‘Lives are threatened’: Portland City Council urges Multco. chair to adopt new ambulance model

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 ...
KOIN 6

Gonzalez to Pederson: Pivot to different ambulance model

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 ...
katu

'This is the only way': AMR requests change to Multnomah Co. ambulance staffing model

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Multnomah County's ambulance provider told the chair of the county government on Tuesday that the "system could collapse in a matter of months" and formally requested a change ...
katu

Multnomah County debates change in ambulance response model amidst community concern

PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — A group of Multnomah County Commissioners say they’re worried that the community is not getting the care it deserves. This has been a long-standing battle over ambulances ...
Medscape

Teleneurology Bests Onboard Ambulance Stroke Care Model

HELSINKI — Using telemedicine-based neurologist assessments in mobile stroke units proves to be safer and more resource-efficient than using traditional models in which a neurologist is on board the ...
Rochester Institute of Technology

RIT Ambulance expands its fleet with a second rig

RIT unveils its second ambulance to help respond to more than 600 calls a year on campus and the surrounding area. It was ...