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Medics split between 24-hour rotations with long breaks and shorter shifts, while many say pay, overtime and staffing matter more than any schedule
The man caused more than $2,550 in damage after spray-painting his website across victim panels at the memorial’s north pool, an act he filmed and posted to Instagram before his arrest
Managing depression, mania and agitation in the field
Gov. Josh Shapiro signed House Bill 2014, letting 14- and 15-year-old volunteers train until 10 p.m. on weekends and summer breaks instead of 9 p.m. and ride in emergency vehicles to calls, aiming to ease scheduling barriers amid a sharp decline in the state’s volunteer EMS and fire ranks
Virginia Beach’s “compassionate billing” program, which doesn’t charge residents co-pays or deductibles, funded seven new ambulances and 43 new EMS hires while distributing $4.2 million to volunteer rescue squads that had struggled to keep pace with rising equipment costs
Facing a $2.2 million budget shortfall driven by low Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements, Baraboo and surrounding municipalities agreed to raise their combined contributions from 18% to 37% of the district’s budget
Williamsburg officials revised the number of people hurt in the homecoming party deck collapse from 28 to 39, with 13 taken by ambulance and 26 seeking their own transportation
UNM Health System canceled clinic appointments and sent ambulances elsewhere as it worked to resolve a cybersecurity incident involving a claimed theft of patient and employee data
About 15 regional firefighters and EMTs practiced triaging simulated patients ahead of the Nov. 1 Sikh Parade, which draws roughly 150,000 attendees to a city of 70,000, with no other equipped hospital within 45 miles
A 36-year-old patient died after the Aspire Health System ambulance transporting her rolled over when struck by a Jeep Grand Cherokee in Sterling Heights