TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Pinellas County woman who is a full-time caregiver for her father is speaking out after repeated issues with a Medicare-covered medical transport service that failed to get her father to his doctor appointments – and last week resulted in a stranger being mistakenly delivered to her home.
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Ronnette Hall takes care of her father, Ron Hall, a bedridden veteran battling cancer and recovering from two strokes. He depends on medical transport services funded by Medicare to get him to essential doctor’s appointments. The process involves transferring Ron from his bed onto a stretcher and into a specialized transport van.
According to Hall, those rides — arranged through Miami-based Ride2MD — have recently become unreliable. In one incident last week, a van arrived late and left after workers discovered the stretcher wouldn’t fit through the doorframe…