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Opinion: Patients are being hit with crippling surprise out-of-network fees for critical, life-saving care.
The EMS system got too good at its job — not the job of saving lives so much as the job of showing up in a matter of minutes at any time, day or night, for anyone who dials those three numbers.
Then, in 2026, the city plans to add a $5.11 charge to hire 14 full-time staff at a future Southridge fire station, increasing the monthly ambulance fee to $25.86.
Ambulance services operating on a private/for profit basis have a long history in the U.S. Often, particularly in smaller communities, ambulance service was seen by the community as a lower priority than police or fire services, and certainly nothing that should require public funding.
A Ford E-Series ambulance with its emergency lights on in Boston An NHS ambulance in south-west London. An ambulance is a medically-equipped vehicle used to transport patients to treatment facilities, such as hospitals. [1] Typically, out-of-hospital medical care is provided to the patient during the transport.
An air ambulance helicopter operated by Mercy Air Service, a private emergency medical services aviation company in the U.S.. The safety of emergency medical services flights has become a topic of public interest in the United States, with the expansion of emergency medical services aviation operations, such as air ambulance and MEDEVAC, and the increasing frequency of related accidents.
A national shortage of EMTs that began even before the COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on some local ambulance corps. Volunteer losses, calls spike puts mounting pressure on these first responders
So far, 100.78 million poultry birds across 48 states have been affected by the disease, reducing the number of laying hens and eggs going to supermarkets. The trajectory of the flu ebbs and flows.