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The sense or idea if this person needs more help, be able to get on the phone with a health professional, a medical professional, and make that assessment together. so sort of streamlining that process. and then once that person actually goes to a hospital, gets the care they need, its important, the mayor says, that they have discharge instructions, they dont just fall through the cracks. they actually are then brought to a homeless shelter if that is the next step or theyre given medicine if t...

Big issue with the mayor. he wants officers, ems workers, city staff to be able to assess someone on a case-by-case basis and intervene, and that could mean involuntarily giving them help. so let me first go over stats with you. first, the mental health in new york city, one in five new yorkers experience a mental health illness in a given year. this was exacerbated certainly by the pandemic. and this is something that the mayor campaigned on, wanting to really get at the issue, saying that in m...

Formula in the spring, mothers were stuck driving hours to get one bottle to feed newborns. >> problems being able to feed your baby. >> it has been a nightmare. every few days, hunting for baby formula. >> how havent we learned from this? the same mothers may be struggling if they have older kids. now were seeing a shortage of and the bikes, childrens tylenol, and labor shortage impacting everything from snowplow drivers to orlando restaurant workers. even 911 calls. there arent enough ems work...

Happened with baby formula back in the spring when mothers were stuck stuck driving hours t to get one bottle to feed their newborns. >> no problem to be able to feed your baby. few itsed really scary. few days, hunting foeverrent baby formula. >>le how havent we learned froe this? those same mothers may stillf th be struggling if they have older kids because nowe we are seeing a disturbing shortage of antibiotics and childrens tylenobikes,l. then, of course, theresd a labor shortage which is im...

Two new emergency response vehicles are coming to Warren and Hickman Counties, equipped with critical care capabilities and staffed with critical care paramedics.

>> and this is amerie jo garza. her father, angel, is a med aid to jumped in to provide assistance to ems workers while he awaited word about his daughter, and he said that he was trying to help a little girl who was covered in blood, and then this happened. >> she was hysterical, saying that they shot her best friend, that they killed her best friend and shes not breathing and she was trying to call the cops, and i asked the little girl the name, and she said -- sweetest little girl who did not...

Ahead of National EMS Week, paramedics and EMT’s from Hartford Healthcare and Hunter’s Ambulance staffed a “Teddy Bear Boo-Boo Clinic” for young...

Last week, the number of Americans collecting unemployment benefitsfell to its lowest level in more than 50 years

Last week, the number of Americans collecting unemployment benefitsfell to its lowest level in more than 50 years

And because of concerns of short-staffing, theres been this mandate or its basically been issued to these ems workers to not transport any noncritical patients to the hospital that are experiencing influenza-like symptoms. but the goal here is to try to transport only those that actually need to be transported to the hospital to try to deal with those staffing issues. so thats one way that new yorkers are being affected. the other way of course is parents and students and staff at the nations la...