Six weeks into the shutdown of Crozer Health, when Radnor Township declared an emergency, the Radnor ambulance seems to be running smoothly, writes Richard Igenfritz for the Daily Times.
So far, township crews are keeping up, with outside EMS calls remaining “relatively stable,” according to Bill White, Radnor Township manager.
The township was expecting to be inundated with patients from the southern part of the county, outside of Radnor, that no longer had access to EMS ambulance service or hospitals.
Instead, calls outside of Radnor number about four to six per week, mainly from Newtown Township, Haverford Township, or 476, all of which are not too far outside of Radnor.
The calls are consistent with the call volumes seen before the closures, White said.
EMS response times out of Radnor have also remained stable, “so we’re not seeing increased response times both to the calls outside of Radnor as well as ones inside Radnor, which was, if you recall, one of our primary concerns.”
White further reported that the amount of time it takes to transfer a patient from an ambulance to a receiving facility, such as an emergency room, has also remained about the same, at five to six minutes.
Find out more about Radnor’s EMS situation in the Daily Times.
