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NYC REMAC Eliminating Backboards From Spinal Immobilization
In a relatively shocking (or perhaps not so shocking to those who keep themselves informed) move, the New York City Regional Medical Advisory Committee has released potential protocols on spinal...
View ArticleNew York State SEMAC Forces New York City REMAC To Continue Torturing...
In a relatively predictible twist of fate, the New York State Emergency Medical Advisory Committee (SEMAC) did NOT approve the New York City Regional Emergency Medical Advisory Committee‘s (REMAC)...
View ArticleDate of Extermination for Spinal Backboards in New York City Announced
The NYC REMAC has announced the date of extermination for the draconian torture device of the spinal backboard: October 30, 2015 Here are the links for the main contents in this post. Protocols have...
View ArticleNYC Ambulance Delays Reportedly Continue Despite Mayor DeBlasio Promises
The New York Post recently ran a few articles regarding the delayed ambulance response time from the Fire Department of New York’s Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (FDNYBEMS). According to the...
View ArticleEMT Suspended For Stopping To Help Choking Girl… Or Was He?
EMT Qwasie Reid has been reportedly suspended by Assist Ambulance for an unauthorized stop while transporting a stable nursing home patient to help a girl choking in a school. There have been numerous...
View ArticleEMT Suspended For Abandoning Patient And Partner… NOT For Stopping To Help...
This is a follow-up post to EMT Suspended For Stopping To Help Choking Girl… Or Was He? Yesterday I posted about EMT Qwasie Reid who was reportedly suspended for stopping while he was transporting a...
View ArticleAssaults On EMTs and Paramedics Now A Felony In New York
New York Senator Martin J. Golden recently announced that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed Senate Bill S4839 that ammended the New York State Penal Code Section 120.05 Subdivision 11 to...
View ArticleCommission Blasts FDNY For Budget Disparity Between Fire Suppression And EMS...
A new report released yesterday from the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) blasts the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) for failing to meet the service needs of the citizens of the city by only...
View ArticleNYC Ambulances Become Enforcers Of Governor’s Homeless Edict
There has been quite a bit of debate regarding legality about Governor Andrew Cuomo‘s order to bring the undomiciled (homeless) into the New York City Shelter System when the temperature drops below...
View ArticleWoman In Labor Denied Ride By UBER Driver
Uber, the car ride-summoning service powered by a smartphone app, has been in the healthcare news for a number of reasons over the last few months. Most of the coverage has been positive, including how...
View ArticleFDNY Chief of EMS Abdo Nahmod Retired By Reshufflement Of FDNY Brass
The NY Daily News has confirmed the rumors swirling around FDNY Chief of EMS Abdo Nahmod‘s departure from the position. The article says: Chief Abdo Nahmod has announced his plans to retire, sources...
View ArticleTransCare Declares Liquidation To New York City And Maryland Assets
FULL DISCLOSURE: I resigned from TransCare in October of 2015 UPDATE 2/25/16 00:15 TransCare in New York City issued the following statement to it’s employees this afternoon: Dear Colleagues, As you...
View ArticleTransCare Ambulance Ordered To Cease Operations Immediately
TransCare Ambulance, which entered into Chapter 7 Liquidation yesterday, has been ordered to cease all operations immediately. Divisional Directors had been lead to believe that there would be a...
View ArticleRemaining “Legacy & Heart” Of TransCare Shuttered By Tilton
This past Wednesday TransCare, controlled by Lynn Tilton‘s Patriarch Partners, declared Chapter 7 bankruptcy but not before spinning off ambulance operations in Hudson Valley New York and Pittsburgh...
View ArticleLenox Hill Hospital Unveils “Green” Ambulance For Earth Day 2016
Lenox Hill Hospital, part of the newly rebranded Northwell Health System, unveiled a new “green” ambulance as part of the Earth Day 2016 celebrations. For a busy urban system such as New York City it...
View ArticleParamedic Sues Hospital For Religious Discrimination
A New York City REMAC Certified Paramedic recently filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court against New York Presbyterian Hospital for terminating her because she is an Orthodox Jewish woman who’s modesty...
View ArticleIntoxicated Man Who Leaped From Ambulance Sues City
The New York Post has an article detailing a recent lawsuit filed against the City of New York by Staten Islander Yaugeni Kralkin who leapt from an ambulance that was transporting him while he was...
View ArticleNew FDNY Ambulances Can Carry Motorized Wheelchairs
Bronx News 12 has a report about new ambulances being deployed by the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) that will be able to transport a patient’s motorized wheelchair: Allow me to say right off that...
View ArticleNYC Fast Food Minimum Wage Is Now More Than Most EMTs’ Starting Rate
Workers in the Fast Food Industry in New York City received a minimum wage increase to $13.50 per hour today, the last day of 2017. Other minimum wage workers, including EMTs, received an increase to...
View ArticleYes, Michael, All EMS Providers Are First Responders
Winter storm Grayson had done his worst, the polar vortex was finally in retreat, bringing the temperature up to a balmy 35 degrees, and I was nestled in the front seat of my ambulance glancing through...
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