Rural 'Ambulance Desert' Means Sometimes Help Isn't on the Way
Today, Rural Pickens County in Alabama has just one ambulance station to serve the area's 20,000 residents.
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Today, Rural Pickens County in Alabama has just one ambulance station to serve the area's 20,000 residents.
CARROLLTON, Ala. — Annie Jackson can’t know whether her sister Grena Prude might have survived had an ambulance been more readily available when she went into cardiac arrest on May
CARROLLTON, Ala. — Annie Jackson can’t know whether her sister Grena Prude might have survived had an ambulance been more readily available when she went into cardiac arrest on May
Annie Jackson can't know whether her sister, Grena Prude, might have survived had an ambulance been more readily available when she went into cardiac arrest May 10. But Jackson is convinced her sister would have at least had a chance.
No local hospital and anemic ambulance services mean residents in rural Pickens County, Alabama, are thrown into perilous situations when they have medical emergencies.