A child breaks a bone, struggles to breathe or suffers frightening thoughts that tell them life isn't worth living. These are examples of medical emergencies that parents and caregivers must be ready ...

For decades, our communities have taken pride in maintaining strong, reliable emergency services. As fire chiefs and public safety directors serving Grand Haven, the Village of Spring Lake, Ferrysburg ...

LancasterOnline’s Kevin Stairiker reported, “The EMS landscape of Manheim Township will look very different soon.” That’s ...

Emergency Medical Services rules stipulate that every ambulance have a call schedule covering 24 hours of the day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. It must be staffed with, at a minimum, a driver ...

When making chest pain-related emergency calls, people with severe mental illness get ambulance dispatches more often than ...

More than 30 years ago, a "handshake agreement" between Springfield's largest health systems established a unique system of ...

Rural emergency medical service workers are sounding the alarm about a system in a financial and worker crisis that can lead — and in some cases has already led — to increased response times for ...

Eight minutes is the most it takes, at least for now. When an emergency call is made, seeking help for someone in urgent medical distress, responders across Berks County are able to arrive within ...