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GBMC president takes a ride-along, touts teamwork
- Larry Merlis’s Monday was no ordinary workday as he chatted with the Baltimore County fire captain and experienced a house call with a cancer patient, but it was one he wants to repeat in a few months.
Rethinking the county hospital alert system
- The shortest route to the emergency room might not be to the closest hospital.
- The shortest route to the emergency room might not be to the closest hospital.
Officials at odds over EMS reform measure
- The president of the largest local union representing civilian emergency service personnel in the District of Columbia said a bill to reform EMS delivery would take too much power away from the hospitals.
Dispatcher disciplined for dismissing call
- A District of Columbia dispatcher was disciplined after she shrugged off the call of a Capitol Hill East woman who reported that a group of teenagers assaulted her 70-year-old neighbor.
Task force to reform emergency medical services
- District Mayor Adrian Fenty on Tuesday led the first meeting of an emergency medical response task force created as part of a settlement with the family of slain New York Times reporter David Rosenbaum.
Harford honors call workers
- Mark Hemler has assisted in the birth of four children without ever seeing their faces. His co-workers have walked men and women through some of the most frightening moments in their lives — but often don’t know if the person on the other end of the phone line will live.
- Mark Hemler has assisted in the birth of four children without ever seeing their faces. His co-workers have walked men and women through some of the most frightening moments in their lives — but often don’t know if the person on the other end of the phone line will live.
Hike in budget to add paid paramedics in ’08
- Harford County’s 2008 budget will include nearly 50 percent more funding for the county’s volunteer fire and ambulance services — mostly to supplement volunteer ambulance crews with paid professionals.
Audit faults emergency call center
- Anne Arundel County police have completed a review of their emergency communications center, stemming from a 2001 incident in which a 911 call about a kidnapped woman was not relayed from dispatchers to the police.
Citizens groups protest makeup of Rosenbaum panel
- Citizens groups are complaining that the public is being left off a task force that will determine the future of the District of Columbia’s emergency response system.
Police: Center needed for consolidation of 911 dispatch
- A central communications center must be built before Carroll can consolidate its 911 dispatch, said Maryland’s secretary of state police Monday.
Carroll to explore unifying emergency dispatch centers
- Carroll should create a task force to explore how to consolidate its emergency dispatch centers, Carroll’s chief of staff said.
Mendelson critical of ambulance down time
- D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson said he’s concerned about the amount of down time ambulances spend at area hospitals because of a shortage of emergency rooms and nurse staffing.
- D.C. Council member Phil Mendelson said he’s concerned about the amount of down time ambulances spend at area hospitals because of a shortage of emergency rooms and nurse staffing.
Task force calls for EMS, police overhaul
- A comprehensive reorganization of the District’s systems of law, order and crisis response is needed to enhance community policing efforts and reform emergency medical services, advisers to Mayor-elect Adrian Fenty said Thursday.