EMS worker shortage at 'crisis' levels, threatening 911 system
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EMS providers across the U.S. are warning that the shortage of medical workers is reaching 'crisis' levels in many areas, threatening the 911 system.
"The magnitude has really blown up over the last few months," American Ambulance Association President Shawn Baird told NBC News. "When you take a system that was already fragile and stretched it because you didn't have enough people entering the field, then you throw a public health emergency and all of the additional burdens that it put on our workforce, as well as the labor shortages across the entire economy, and it really has put us in a crisis mode."
"We're not just facing a crisis, we're in it," Waldoboro, Maine, town manager Julie Keizer told News Center Maine.
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