Name: Portland metro ambulance providers increasingly fail to meet counties’ response time standards
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Portland metro ambulance providers increasingly fail to meet counties’ response time standards

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Washington County recently switched providers from Metro West to AMR. But data from multiple counties shows that both companies have struggled in responding to calls on time, a problem that they attribute to staffing shortages. Read more: https://www.kgw.com/article/news/investigations/ambulance-response-times-portland-metro-area/283-785ad261-7a91-4b9b-b07c-dd58d39ce538 Watch more The Story videos: http://bit.ly/watchTheStory Follow The Story on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thestorykgw

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investigations health local news the-story ambulance response times metro west ambulance american medical response paramedic shortage ems shortage

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