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Illinois bill keeps rural ambulance services staffed and on-call

By Brian Weckerly,

11 hours ago

Policies to keep rural ambulance services staffed and on-call to help save lives have been signed into law in Illinois.

House Bill 5446 provides flexibility to rural ambulance services to meet legally mandated staffing requirements, improve response time, and get patients to the hospital even faster
the legislation also updates staffing requirements to ensure ambulance crews can remain in service.

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