St. Luke’s Emergency and Transport Service (SLETS) is now able to carry whole blood on its specialized critical care transport (CCT) ambulances.

EMS has been primarily career staffing in Bucks County for 30 years. Wages were low, health insurance minimal, no retirement, inherent danger on every call, abundant work related injuries, little vacation time…an endless list.

Several Tinicum residents this month brought the topic of budgetary deficiencies facing Upper Bucks Regional Emergency Medical Services to the township board of supervisors.