A city in Wayne County, Michigan, will now invoice nursing homes and assisted living centers for calls relating to what first responders consider to be “non-emergency” situations.
The dispute involves calls for lift assistance, which involves helping to get someone in or out of bed or moved around a care facility, and non-emergency transportation of such a person to another location.
“This new policy is about holding these corporate-owned facilities accountable for overusing public resources in ways that are neither appropriate nor sustainable,” Westland City Councilman Mike McDermott said in a social media post about the situation…