AJC | Georgia EMS crews near ‘breaking point’
From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on January 8
On a recent day, a Dawsonville ambulance worker was trying to rush a patient with dangerously high blood pressure to the hospital.
But after a brief call, she learned its emergency department was on “diversion,” meaning her patient could wait more than an hour for a bed, tying up the ambulance from responding to other calls.
“I have been hung up … and told to go else where!” she posted on the social media page of a statewide group of emergency medical personnel.
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