Ambulance Services
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Colorado Springs City Council split on proposed EMS enterprise
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The Colorado Springs City Council appeared split on Monday about bringing ambulance services in-house, following five hours of presentation from the Fire Department and city staff on the plan to create a new emergency medical services enterprise. Some councilmembers characterized the potential move away from the city’s current ambulance services provider, American Medical Response, as…
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AMR vs. Colorado Springs Fire Department: How competing ambulance services stack up
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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…