Rural Mo. District Allegedly Refusing Transfers, Alternatives
Jeff Tindle has an ambulance sitting on his driveway that he would like to use. The chief executive of Carroll County Memorial Hospital could have used it the time he drove an appendicitis patient in need of emergency surgery to another hospital in his Suburban because he said the Carroll County Ambulance District refused to do the transfer. Or the time in October when a Carrollton police officer had to give an 18-year-old with a broken hand and an uncertain COVID-19 status a ride to the hospital because the same ambulance district did not respond to the scene. Or the time in September when a...
Source: emsworld.com