Boston EMS

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[quote name='Skip Olson BFD L14' post='40224' date='Oct 5 2006, 12:25 ']I can second what Ed has stated, the sheer number of hospitals in the city make having many more ALS trucks impractical. There are at least 8 hospitals with full Emergency Rooms within city limits (Beth Israel, Boston Medical Center, Brigham & Women's, Carney, Faulkner, Massachusetts General, New England Medical & Saint Elizabeth's). The city itself is just over 40 square mils in area which means you average a hospital for about every 5 square miles of area. They are also fairly well spread out so by the time ALS arrives, more often then not the patient can already be at a hospital.[/quote]



WOW! I guess the demise of the Code 3 board had some positive effect. Welcome to Firepics Sean!