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Since last July, documents, emails and veteran paramedics have questioned life and death decisions made in the Denver Health paramedics division and, more specifically, the culture of pressure that forces those decisions.
For more than a year, the Denver7 Investigates team has examined critical decisions made by the Denver Health Paramedics Division. This 30-minute special report covers reporting from multiple angles into an issue that more than a half dozen veteran paramedics said “must be investigated."
A third former Denver Health paramedic has come forward and is telling Denver7 Investigates on camera that she was also pressured to bypass closer level-one trauma centers and bring critically injured patients back to Denver Health.
In 2016, Denver Health paramedics transported a severely injured 11-year-old girl 6.6 miles from her home to Denver Health, despite Swedish Medical Center being just over 2 miles away. Now, Denver's executive director of public safety is calling for an official review of the emergency response.