EMS News Blog
EMS Agency Closures
February 12, 2023 (DENVER) Colorado agencies are not the only services facing crises in maintaining operations due to staffing, vehicles or finances. Read these stories from across the nation, compiled by the American Ambulance Association's "State Association Forum."
- Despite Jasper County’s efforts to improve EMS services, state may need to pay more attention
- States strive to reverse shortage of paramedics, EMTs
- Maine among states trying to reverse a shortage of paramedics and EMTs
- From Augusta: Addressing the EMS staffing shortage
- Strapped emergency services struggle to answer 911 calls
- Pennsylvania EMS system teeters on brink of collapse, official says
- Wall ambulance service is a month away from shutting down
- Milwaukee's emergency medical services system needs more than Band-Aids to prevent disaster
- Ambulance times impacted as Virginia Beach EMS looks for volunteers
- Milbridge Town Manager and Police Chief, Lewis Pinkham, says they were notified on December 8th by Petit Manan Ambulance Corps that they would be closing due to funding and licensing issues.
- Depleted Ambulance Staffs Need Immediate Relief