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County to staff and fund EMS medication restocking after ECU Health ends support
Summary
After ECU Health announced it will stop restocking EMS medications, the board approved funding and a new position so the county can manage medication logistics; staff said restricted EMS fees and the EMS tax should cover the estimated one-time implementation costs.
The Pitt County Board approved funding and a new position to allow county EMS to manage medication restocking after ECU Health notified the county it will stop providing that service.
Emergency management presenters (speaker 13) told commissioners they were notified Dec. 16 that "effective April 1 ECU Health will no longer provide medications to the EMS squads in the Pitt County EMS system." Staff said they had…
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