Allegiance reports 177 EMS runs in ESD4 during August

If the local ESD4 added a 3rd ambulance from Allegiance the cost would be under a million dollars, less than half of what it would cost to take over and run our own service and staff.

By Anton Riecher
Allegiance Mobile Health reported 177 EMS runs inside Medina County Emergency Services District No. 4 during the month of August with an overall average response time of seven minutes, Allegiance District Chief Patrick Bourcier said.
Forty-three percent of the ambulance runs reported an arrival time of five minutes or less, the August report states. Thirty-nine percent arrived within six to nine minutes of being summoned while 18 percent required 10 minutes or more to arrive.
Three runs logged during August required a…

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