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DPH hearing centers on who can safely provide ALS in Weathersfield and whether implementation should be delayed
Summary
At oral argument on July 29, town and Aetna counsel argued that Aetna’s regional deployment model better preserves ALS coverage and response times; WEMSA countered that it lacks ALS equipment and med‑control in place and asked for a delayed implementation if the proposed decision is adopted.
Counsel for the town of Wethersfield and for Aetna Ambulance told the Department of Public Health on July 29 that the hearing officer correctly found Aetna’s plan would maintain or improve patient care in the town, citing decades of local experience and evidence on response times and dynamic deployment.
Town counsel Arnold Menschel and Aetna counsel Kim Reinhart described a regional model in which multiple ambulances are posted and dynamically redeployed so one unit moving to a hospital is backstopped by another ambulance moving into its posting. Menschel said the record includes evidence that Aetna historically maintains two to three posting locations in Weathersfield and, regionally, typically…
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