The People Demand It!

You won’t hear this at any other Erie news outlet:  Richard Gibbons is out as CEO of Emergycare.
Apparently, he “resigned” as of yesterday.  Gibbons oversaw Emergycare during a time of paramedic shortages. (reread this post from September)  According to several sources, Gibbons was escorted out of the Emergycare building at 1701 Sassafras Street yesterday.  His […]

Dale Hannah has been doing excellent writing recently on the Erie Police Department’s staffing woes.  Read them here.
But another staffing problem has another sector of public safety stretched thin.  This story from WICU tells of a paramedic shortage at Emergycare.  But the story tells some outright untruths.
It starts out…
 Emergycare may remove paramedics from being stationed […]

After having lived in another locale for the last 3 1/2 years, I think the answer is yes it is.  Like most things in Erie, it is about 10 to 15 years behind everywhere else.  Take the Erie County 911 center/dispatch consolidation.  Erie was the last of all of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties to consolidate, and […]

Thanks to Mike for the link to the Topix.com thread on Emergycare.  It seems that things are really getting heated on one side of the argument over there.  I mean, they’re really eating their own.
The one thing that I have noticed, is the usual bashing of people that have moved out-of-town to further their career […]

One of the nice things about being in Erie is that I get Erie’s news real time.
And in the Erie Times-News of Friday was a story about Emergycare shutting down their operations in Meadville. Emergycare started their operation in Meadville when they bought out Eastern Ambulance Service. At that time, there were three […]