Hopedale fire chief pitches plan to double firefighters at no cost to taxpayers
The Milford Daily News
HOPEDALE After years of minimal staffing and low budgets, Hopedale’s fire chief said this week that he has found a way to double the town’s number of firefighters at no cost to taxpayers.
“The runs are coming in, the staffing isn’t,” Fire Chief Thomas Daige told selectmen this week, referring to emergency calls that need firefighters and EMTs. “You know this, I know this, we’ve been trying to find a way to add staffing.”
The chief s solution is called inter-facility transports, and it involves patients who require medical transportation from the hospital back to their homes or assisted living facilities. Because the transportation is required, Hopedale will typically be paid for the rides through insurance plans.
Paul Brassil of
Medfield has joined the company as senior vice president/chief information officer and will oversee PCU’s information technology and digital innovation efforts.
Brassil has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology leadership field with entities such as Commonwealth Medicine (a division of UMass Medical School), the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, EMC Corp. and Siemens IT Solutions and Services Inc.
He holds an MS in computer information systems from Bentley University in
Waltham and a BA in Business Administration from Bridgewater State University.
Brassil s community involvement spans initiatives focused on workforce development and industry leadership serving as a member of the Tech Hire Advisory Group of Boston’s Private Industry Council (comprised of Boston CIOs developing summer intern programs for low/moderate income students in the Boston Public Schools); an adviser for Fintech Women (helping women in banking/finance/fintech a
UMass Memorial Health Care has filed paperwork opposing Mass General Brigham's planned outpatient facility in Westborough, saying the Somerville-based health network hasn't demonstrated a need for the new medical office.
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