korn

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1. emergency dept staffing with paramedics/emts

   korn replied to CTURNEY's topic in Emergency

   nurse/mom As you probably know by now, AMR is on the auction block for 1.2 Billion. Seems that their parent company Laidlaw, is ready to get out of the ambulance business. It will be interesting to see what happens with the breakup of the nations l...

2. emergency dept staffing with paramedics/emts

   korn replied to CTURNEY's topic in Emergency

   On a related topic, how do you all feel about the new development by AMR(Americal Medical Response) ambulance company, and their contract with Kaiser Permanente, to handle all their emergency triage calls? The idea is to put a PRE-911 step in place ...

3. emergency dept staffing with paramedics/emts

   korn replied to CTURNEY's topic in Emergency

   I am new to the BB but impressed with the candor being shown. RE: pre-hospital personnel in the ED let me offer the following recommendation. We, as nurses, will not stop the progression of EMS into the ED. Nor should we. The issue is one of how ...