For Immediate Release February 20, 2020 Atlanta—The Georgia Ambulance Transparency Project, a grassroots ethics and transparency watchdog, announced Thursday it would issue first-ever transparency and accountability report cards for the regional councils that provision and administer emergency medical services across the state. The Georgia Department of Public Health last year tightened rules and regulations governing...
EMS reform is a matter of life and death. Just ask these families. By Julianne Thompson Insider Advantage Nov. 7, 2019 No new rule or regulation can bring back Donna Martin or Jason Brady; two lives among many, cut short as the result of substandard emergency medical care. But new reforms being considered by the...
Ambulance service gets little oversight in Georgia By Yamil Berard The Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 22, 2019 A crew of Paulding County emergency workers was racing the clock just before daybreak one August day to save Jason Brady’s life. As he gasped for air, medics and first responders urged the autistic Dallas man to slow his...
The ‘right person has not died yet’ By Tia Lynn Ivey The Morgan County Citizen “The elephant in the room that no one will acknowledge is, plainly: the right person has not died yet,” said Paula Sellers in an impassioned plea to the Morgan County Board of Commissioners (BOC) about long ambulance wait times last...
Long waits for ambulances plague parts of Fulton County By Yamil Berard The Atlanta Journal-Constitution May 31, 2019 Just before Mother’s Day, Apfollo Harvey Sr. watched his mother struggle to breathe while waiting 40 minutes for an ambulance to arrive. He could not feel her pulse as the 73-year-old diabetic lay still. “I was so...
Saddened but undeterred, victims pledge to continue fight for transparency FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA, GEORGIA (April 3, 2019) The Georgia Ambulance Transparency Project vowed Wednesday to continue its campaign to reform how the state administers and regulates ambulance services after a popular ethics and transparency packaged failed at the eleventh hour in a special conference...
Proposal advances next to Rules before full chamber FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA, GEORGIA (March 19, 2019) The Georgia Senate Ethics Committee on Tuesday favorably reported an ethics and transparency package that would apply new, national best practices to the oversight and delivery of ambulance services across the state. House Bill 264, which passed the House...
The Georgia Institute of EMS devoted a recent show to House Bill 264, an ethics and transparency package that would apply new, national best practices to the oversight and delivery of ambulance services across Georgia You’ve already heard from victims and good government advocates why EMS reform is so important—now hear it from industry pros....
I lost my mother to Georgia’s EMS system. Why won’t the state clean it up? By Ellen Sims Insider Advantage March 15, 2019 When my family suffered the devastating loss of my mother after our local ambulance provider failed to respond to our calls for help, we couldn’t imagine any greater pain: she was the...
With 148-6 vote, bill advances to Senate FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA, GEORGIA (March 8, 2019) A bill to ban ambulance vendors from serving on Department of Public Health councils that direct emergency medical services across the state was approved by Georgia House of Representatives Thursday. House Bill 264, which passed on a 148-6 margin, represents...
