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		<title>Christiana Opens Emergency Medical Unit in Middletown, DE; New Health Option for Southern Cecil County</title>
		<link>https://ceciltimes.com/2013/05/christiana-care-opens-emergency-medical-unit-in-middletown-de-new-health-option-for-southern-cecil-county-wheres-cecil-ambo-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 20:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The renowned Christiana Care Health System’s hospital and trauma center in Delaware recently opened a satellite “Emergency Department” in Middletown that provides a new source of medical services to southern Cecil County, Maryland residents—but local ambulance transport in emergencies is still a while away. The new $34 million, 36,500 square foot emergency medical services facility, located near the intersection of Brick Mill Road and Route 299 (adjacent to the Giant Food shopping center on the outskirts of town near Route 1) opened a few weeks ago in what hospital officials described as a low-key, “soft” opening on April 16. But the facility is already exceeding estimates of patient demand for services and is expected to move from “walk-in” patients only to ambulance-transported patients in the next few months. The hospital also has a helipad for helicopter transport of critically ill patients from the Middletown facility to the main Christiana Care hospital and trauma center in northern New Castle County, DE. (Christiana Care has consistently won top honors in national evaluations of state and regional hospitals.) Right now, the Middletown facility provides new closer-to-home medical services to southern Cecil County —an area that has been characterized by state and federal agencies [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecilton Fire Company Seeks Modernization, but Cecil County Budget Advisors Could Snag Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cecilton volunteer fire company is seeking Cecil County support for a modernized approach to fire-fighting—selling off a fairly new fire engine and a very old one and instead buying a new ladder truck to meet southern county needs—but a new report by a budget advisory panel could scuttle the proposal. Robert Plato, who became the new Cecilton fire chief last year, outlined his plans at a Cecil County Commissioners’ worksession Tuesday as part of a broader initiative to modernize emergency services in the county’s southernmost town, which also serves a sprawling rural area east and west of the town. “I’m trying to upgrade Cecilton so nobody gets killed,” Plato said. Cecilton is at the top of the countywide volunteer fire association’s priority list for replacement of an aging 1991 fire engine currently in service. But Plato said he wants to sell off that antiquated engine, as well as a much newer, six-year old fire engine that does not meet local needs, and instead acquire a new ladder truck that would best serve the local community as well as other areas. The fire company is willing to go into debt or raise community funds, at no extra cost to county [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Ambulances: County Asked to Takeover Some Services; Volunteer Fire Companies Object</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County’s Emergency Services director asked the County Commissioners Tuesday to shift some basic ambulance services away from volunteer fire companies to county employees, at a gross cost of over $5 million over a four year period. But the volunteers say they can provide the same services at a much lower cost to taxpayers. The proposal, which some volunteer fire/emergency companies say could spell a death knell for their community-based operations, comes during an election year. The county’s fire companies, and their members and supporters in local communities, represent a potent voting block. Richard Brooks, the county’s director of Emergency Services, proposed the hiring of a staff of 28 county employees, stationed at three areas in the county, and county government purchase of three new “basic” ambulances to address problems with response times to calls for emergency medical services. Brooks claimed that his agency could take over the services at no net increased cost to taxpayers because his department could begin, for the first time under state law, to collect fees from patients transported in existing county “advanced” paramedic ambulances, as well as in the new “basic” ambulances. He presented a spreadsheet to commissioners that did not tally total costs [&#8230;]]]></description>
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