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Resident urges Skokie board to vote on adding ambulances and change EMS transport protocol
Summary
A resident asked the board to set a vote within two months on adding ambulances to the village fleet and to create a policy so emergency responders bypass the closest hospital and transport a specific patient to Lutheran General Hospital; the board did not take formal action during the meeting.
A resident asked the Village Board Aug. 4 to address what he called a shortfall in ambulance capacity and to adopt a formal policy directing emergency medical services to bypass the closest hospital and transport certain patients to Lutheran General Hospital.
David Dahlke identified himself as representing the interests of 9330 Laurel and presented a letter dated Aug. 1 from a physician at Lutheran General Hospital requesting that…
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