Posted on 09/04/2016 1:46:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
DURHAM, N.C. -- Johnston Ambulance Service, the state's largest private ambulance service is closing at the end of Wednesday, putting around 400 full and part-time employees out of a job.
"We do a lot of transports, across the state and Virginia," said one employee from the Triad who did not want to be identified. "There are many people who don't know what they will do next, some have weddings coming up."
The private ambulance service, based in eastern North Carolina, serves thousands of patients across the state with non-emergency transportation for treatments like dialysis and wound care -- including right here in the Triad....
(Excerpt) Read more at myfox8.com ...
“Hey, I just know what the owner of the company is telling me in the article about his business.”
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Well, actually you know what the ‘reporter’ told you the owner of the business said, which may be very different that what he actually said.
Daughter was a flight nurse at the time and it was a honor paid to her by the base commander. Lo and behold though the crew did get a call for an accident about a mile away.
Although the article was written in “novo-journalist muddle”, I think the owner was saying that the amount of paperwork required because of CommieCare over the last few years plus the calculated slow to non-payment caused him to go out of business.
According to the media and Democrat Party another sign of a booming economy.
This company hauled a lot of the vets to/from the VA Hospital in Durham
In 2013 a bigger ambulance service went bankrupt in this same area.
Major ambulance service shuts down without notice in six states
A private ambulance service that transported more than a half-million patients a year in six states abruptly shut down without explanation, leaving dozens of cities and towns scrambling for medical transportation options this week without a word of warning.
First Med EMS, based in Wilmington, N.C., served hospitals and other medical facilities in more than 70 municipalities in Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. It operated under the names TransMed, Life Ambulance and MedCorp, boasting in publicity materials: “We take pride in our performance and the safety of our patients. We refuse to compromise on this.”
I like your Tag Line...
That they did.
“Ironically, Price said the company has more business than it can keep up with. “
“This is the fourth private ambulance company to shut down in Eastern North Carolina in the last year”
"There are many people who don't know what they will do next, some have weddings coming up."
I am certain that he did say it. Probably kept repeating it but the editor wouldn’t allow his party to take the heat for laying off all those people.
My next one is going to be, “If you can hear the shot, you aren’t the target.”
Locally a political hack got a contract with the VA to transport patients. He botched the business.
He then ran for state representative and won. He lasted one term.
This year he ran for State Senate and got blown away.
In don’t know anyone who ever made money with a VA contract.
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