Study: Expensive air ambulance rides may not be worth the cost
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Researchers say that air ambulances, such as the one pictured on Parliament Square in London in 2017, carry a high price but may not result in saving more lives. File Photo by Will Oliver/EPA
Air ambulance service is pricey, but promises lifesaving speed by providing rapid straight-line helicopter transport for critically ill patients.
But a new study out of Denmark questions whether that expensive haste winds up saving more lives.
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Researchers found no statistically significant difference in the death rate between people transported by ground ambulance or helicopter, according to findings published this month in JAMA Network Open.
Michael Best Strategies partner Karen Timberlake to serve as DHS interim secretary
Karen Timberlake
Karen Timberlake, a partner at Michael Best Strategies’ Madison office, will serve as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ interim secretary.
Timberlake replaces Andrea Palm, who has been nominated as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Biden Administration. Palm will depart DHS on Wednesday, and Timberlake will take over in the interim starting Jan. 25.
This isn’t Timberlake’s first time working for DHS. She served as the secretary of the agency from 2008 to 2011, under Gov. Jim Doyle. Her time in office included managing the department during its 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus response.
Gov. Tony Evers on Monday, Jan. 18, released a statement regarding Department of Health Services (DHS) Secretary-designee Andrea Palm’s nomination to be Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health
Gov. Tony Evers also announced that Karen Timberlake, who served as DHS secretary under former Gov. Jim Doyle during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, will take on the role of