The ambulance sirens still wail through the capital city’s streets. But now they wail longer. They travel farther. And for some residents of New Jersey’s seat of power, they arrive too late.
In the span of a single generation, Trenton has watched its hospitals vanish one by one — a slow bleed that has left 90,000 residents with a single emergency room and a question that hangs in the air like smoke: Who decided our lives were worth less than theirs?
The numbers tell a story the powerful would prefer remain untold. Three hospitals once served this city…