Tag: City Enterprise
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AMR vs. Colorado Springs Fire Department: How competing ambulance services stack up
Sabra Shay waited nine hours at UCHealth Grandview Hospital on narcotics to ease her pain before the hospital called an ambulance to take her for emergency gallbladder surgery. Her daughter had driven her to the hospital initially, but by the time the ambulance was scheduled, she didn’t have any other option. Ambulnz by DocGo, a…
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AMR vs. Colorado Springs Fire Department: How competing ambulance services stack up
Editor’s note: This article has been updated to reflect updates to the amounts Colorado Springs Fire Department plans to charge for Advanced Life Support and Basic Life Support ambulance transports, as reflected in a city presentation to the City Council on Monday, May 13. Sabra Shay waited nine hours at UCHealth Grandview Hospital on narcotics…
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Colorado Springs considers city-run ambulance service to replace current provider, AMR
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A dulcet but definitive voice scratches on the loudspeaker, echoing through the multi-bay garage ground floor of Colorado Springs’ oldest, busiest firehouse. “Truck respond, medical assist.” And so the firefighters of Station 1 do. A Colorado Springs Fire Department ambulance, or squad as it’s referred to…
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Colorado Springs considers city-run ambulance service to replace current provider, AMR
The Springs is one one of the few major U.S. metro areas that still contracts with a private company for ambulance services