{"id":267428,"date":"2013-07-09T16:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T21:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=267428"},"modified":"2013-07-10T15:58:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T20:58:57","slug":"etmc-to-contract-ems-to-cover-southern-cherokee-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=267428","title":{"rendered":"ETMC to Contract EMS to Cover Southern Cherokee Co."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=267429\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-267429\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/07\/thumb_ems-ambulance-150x106.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_ems-ambulance\" width=\"150\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-267429\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 ETMC EMS has worked out a new contract agreement with Cherokee County commissioners.  KETK reports ETMC EMS will subcontract with Blanket EMS out of Huntsville to cover the cities of Alto and Wells and southern Cherokee County effective July 16. The county, both cities, and ETMC EMS are contributing to the cost of using Blanket EMS. ETMC EMS will serve as a backup to Blanket EMS and will dispatch their calls.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>ETMC EMS announced earlier this summer that because of cuts in reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance, the East Texas Medical Center Regional Healthcare System is reducing spending by five to seven percent this year.  \u201cFor many years, ETMC has been able to provide ambulance service in many communities for free or for a small fee, but with the changes in reimbursements we could no longer afford to provide this service,\u201c explained Neal Franklin, general manager for ETMC EMS.<\/p>\n<p>Effective July 16, ETMC EMS will also no longer station a dedicated ambulance in the cities of Gladewater, Frankston and Van. Champion EMS will take over Gladewater; Frankston and Van are in negotiations with other EMS service providers to take over these areas.  \u201cWe are pleased we have been able to work with these communities to find EMS coverage for them,\u201d said Franklin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 ETMC EMS has worked out a new contract agreement with Cherokee County commissioners. KETK reports ETMC EMS will subcontract with Blanket EMS out of Huntsville to cover the cities of Alto and Wells and southern Cherokee County effective July 16. The county, both cities, and ETMC EMS are contributing to the cost of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=267428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ETMC to Contract EMS to Cover Southern Cherokee Co.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 16:16:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267428"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267681,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267428\/revisions\/267681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}