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Davidson County to seek outside EMS review as response‑time and staffing concerns persist
Summary
County staff and commissioners agreed to pursue an outside consultant to analyze EMS response times, base placement and operational options after staff cited staffing shortfalls, hospital pull on medics and data discrepancies between local CAD outputs and earlier consultant work.
Davidson County commissioners agreed Feb. 5 to move forward with an outside review of the county’s emergency medical services, following a staff presentation that flagged staffing shortages and data questions about response times.
County staff presented a recent proposal from a vendor to analyze CAD (computer‑aided dispatch) data and recommend potential changes to base placement, ‘chaser’ or quick‑response vehicle deployment, and other operational adjustments. Mr. Smith, who presented the briefing, said the county has CAD data but needs an…
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