• Published

  January 30, 2023
  

  Med-Care Ambulance offers a crash course in EMS

  Citizens attended a course to learn about CPR, first aid and the kinds of care paramedics provide in emergency situations.

• Published

  January 14, 2023
  

  Panel recommends increases in funding, benefits to boost EMS in Maine

  A report from the Blue Ribbon Commission to Study Emergency Medical Services calls for more than $70 million in state funding per year.

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  December 5, 2022
  

  Maine’s emergency medical services at ‘breaking point,’ commission says in final report

  The most pressing concern the state’s 272 service providers are facing is inadequate funding, driven largely by 'antiquated and woefully inadequate' Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements coupled with the high — and increasing — cost of providing services.

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  November 25, 2022
  

  Multi-vehicle, other crashes in New Sharon on Friday due to freezing rain

  Several people from the accident were transported to Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington.

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  November 14, 2022
  

  Commission recommends annual infusion of $76 million to help Maine’s beleaguered emergency medical services

  A 17-member commission recommended that $25 million immediately go to agencies in danger of failing or leaving the communities they serve.

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