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Joe,

I listen to the scanner daily, and over last few months I’ve been noticing an alarming trend. The number of 911 calls coming out of Salisbury Rehab & Nursing Center (Genesis) has to be taking an emense toll on available local EMS resources. SRNC is calling 911 over 10 times a day, and some days it’s close to 20. That is totally absurd. There’s no way that all those transports are true medical emergencies. 

Just yesterday, I heard 2 ambulances go to SRNC for 2 diffent patients at the same time. Doing so depleted Salisbury’s ambulances (the others were responding to other real emergencies in the city), and therefore Salisbury had to call Hebron to assist answering calls in the city, and then Hebron got a call for a patient in cardiac arrest. The patient in cardiac arrest definitely had a delay in care as a direct result of SRNC calling 911 to transport patients that could otherwise be transported by a private ambulance company. 

Private ambulances are there to transport patients between facilities, in both emergency and non-emergency situations. EMS personnel on private ambulances have the same training as their 911 counterparts. Private ambulances have the same equipment and capabilities as 911 ambulances. 

The 911 EMS system was never designed to transport 10-20 patients a day from one facility to another. My tax money is not supposed to be used to bypass private ambulance companies. 

This issue needs to be addressed before more people have a delay in care due to SRNC hogging the city’s available resources.


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