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.PARAMEDIC NEWS
Health officials say they're working to change Ambulance New Brunswick contract
CBC News
Provincial officials at the Department of Health say they're "working toward" fixing the Ambulance New Brunswick contract that now includes a bonus payment system favouring urban over rural areas. But they offered no details during an appearance before a committee of MLAs on what that work involves or how soon changes could be made.
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Bass River man says he had to wait too long for paramedic during wife's medical emergency
CTV News
A Bass River man maintains he had to wait too long for help — even after EHS has presented its timeline of events leading to the dispatch of paramedics to his wife’s medical emergency. Kevin George says his wife died after it took responders 80 minutes to arrive. EHS says it took about half that time, citing a preliminary review that found EHS crews were sent from Truro immediately after receiving the 9-1-1 call.
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Une ambulance de plus réclamée à La Baie
iHeart Radio
Le conseiller municipal de La Baie, Martin Harvey, demande au CIUSSS Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean d'ajouter un véhicule ambulancier dans le secteur de La Baie. Il en a fait une résolution qui a été adoptée à l'unanimité hier soir lors de la séance d'arrondissement. Selon lui, depuis décembre dernier, il n'y a plus d'ambulance la nuit sur le territoire en raison d'un projet pilote du CIUSSS. Il rappelle que l'arrondissement de La Baie est un territoire assez vaste.
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'It really hit the wall': Paramedics sound alarm over unstaffed ambulances, longer waits
CTV News
Paramedics are sounding the alarm after a night they said saw longer waits for calls in Metro Vancouver and more than two dozen ambulances left unstaffed due to shortages. President of Ambulance Paramedics and Emergency Dispatchers of B.C. Troy Clifford said recently, about 25 per cent of ambulances were sitting empty across the Lower Mainland, while waits for emergency calls were up to an hour, and waits for non-urgent calls were up to sixteen hours.
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On the very front lines of COVID-19 in Squamish
The Squamish Chief
A story that sticks out for Troy Clifford, provincial president of Ambulance Paramedics and Dispatchers of BC, involves an older man with COVID-19 who was heading into an ambulance and wondering out loud if he would ever see his wife again. “She gave him a hug, the paramedic told me. It was sad,” Clifford recalled.
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COVID-19 pandemic taking its toll on Durham Region paramedics
Global News
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected nearly all aspects of everyday life. For front-line workers in Durham Region, however, the burden has been particularly hard to bear. That includes many paramedics who say their workload has been impacting their mental health, including Elgin Brommel. “It’s the stress of not knowing what we could bring home,” says Bromell, who has worked in the field for more than 20 years.
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County paramedics get a shot in the arm with access to vaccine
OrillaMatters
Simcoe County paramedics are breathing a collective sigh of relief now that they’ve been able to access the COVID-19 vaccine. “I’m very happy and very relieved and very appreciative,” said Simcoe County paramedic Danielle Desrochers, who has been anxiously waiting for the shot, which she finally received recently. “It’s been such a scary time to be a paramedic, to go into all these calls.”
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407 ETR gifts $170,000 in free travel to firefighters, paramedics and food bank workers in appreciation of their contributions to COVID-19 relief
Cision
It's been a long battle against COVID-19 and 407 ETR is continuing to show its support for those on the front lines through its latest in-kind donation of $170,000 in free travel for fire departments, emergency medical services (EMS) and food bank workers along the highway. 407 ETR gift cards have been provided to organizations from Hamilton to Oshawa and will be distributed accordingly to staff and volunteers. The gift announced today is in addition to the $300,000 in-kind donation of free travel given to hospital workers across the GTA at the onset of the pandemic.
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Police, paramedics administered naloxone 46 times over 4 years in county
Wellington Advertiser
Local first responders administered naloxone 46 times between 2017 and 2020 at opioid overdose calls in Wellington County. OPP officials say its officers saved two lives with the drug over that time — and 210 across the province — while local paramedics do not have similar data. Statistics show that opioid overdose calls were up substantially Guelph last year, but numbers have remained consistent in Wellington County since 2017.
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Frontenac Paramedics Community Paramedicine program receives $6.5 million
Kingstonist
The Government of Ontario made an announcement recently, saying it is investing $6.5 million over four years to enhance Frontenac Paramedics’ Community Paramedicine program. According to a release from the County of Frontenac, the funds are intended to support people on the wait list for long-term care, those who are eligible for long-term care, or those soon to be eligible for long-term care, by providing in-home care that stabilizes their illness or disease trajectory.
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Peel paramedics vaccinated, can give shots to LTC residents
Toronto Sun
Peel Paramedics are clearly pleased with their progress battling COVID-19. “Vaccine milestone! With our paramedics being vaccinated, they can help give the vaccine to those living in our long-term care homes who are most at risk. Thanks to our partners for supporting the rollout,” Peel Paramedics tweeted recently.
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ECGs for all ambulances
Castanet
Local donors from Lake Country to Armstrong have provided funding for eight portable electrocardiogram machines for North Okanagan ambulances. For critical heart attacks, the quickest response is the best. The funds are part of a pilot project between Interior Health and BC Emergency Health Services that will equip every ambulance in proximity to a heart cath lab with one of the life-saving devices.
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After a night of one-hour waits for ambulances, union goes public with concerns
Surrey Now-Leader
After a night of un-staffed ambulances and 911 call response times of up to an hour in Metro Vancouver recently, the ambulance union went public, calling on the BC Ambulance Service to do better. It was the urban area that hit a breaking point, but Ambulance Paramedics of British Columbia president Troy Clifford said the system is strained across the province, especially in the Kootenays and northern B.C.
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Muskrat Dam to receive ambulance
CKDR
Muskrat Dam First Nation is getting new ambulance thanks to a Thunder Bay company. Buhler-Moore First Aid Services coordinated the donation of a decommissioned ambulance from the Rainy River EMS. The ambulance will be used at the community’s treatment centre.
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Always on call: Fire department, ambulance service 'deal with it all'
Nunavut News
Having a solid fire department and emergency services that people have faith in can play a definite role in the overall health of a community. Rankin Inlet fire Chief Mark Wyatt said most people only see the department as being there for people when they’re not healthy or in peril but, in terms of taking care of people when they are healthy, they also teach things like first aid and CPR so they can, hopefully, deal with some of the things that could happen in their family and help to increase the survival rate of those they care for.
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EHS Operations to get ambulance recruitment back to pre-COVID levels, improve response times
Global News
EHS Operations in Nova Scotia acknowledged in a recent briefing that ambulance response times and availability has been impacted by various factors, and the agency is now working on solutions to bring improvement. Senior manager of provincial operations at EHS Operations, Phil Stewart, said at the briefing that ambulance availability is a “complex issue” that’s “influenced by a number of factors.”
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