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Local emergency physician raises concerns about Region 5 Healthcare Coalition handling of mobile medical unit and PPE
Summary
An emergency physician and firefighter told commissioners that equipment was removed from a county-housed medical support vehicle and that PPE from the Strategic National Stockpile was discarded during a regional coalition relocation; county staff said they will follow up.
An emergency physician and local first responder told the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners on July 15 that a regional healthcare coalition removed equipment from a county‑housed medical support vehicle without broad local notification and that pandemic supplies from the Strategic National Stockpile were discarded when the coalition moved its warehousing.
Josh Massebrook, an emergency physician who also serves as a firefighter and first responder in Richland, described Medical Support Unit 3 (MSU‑3) as a…
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