Mayor Donna Deegan and the Jacksonville Fire Rescue Department just cut the ribbon on northeast Florida’s first “mobile stroke treatment unit,” an ambulance given to the city by UF Health.
UF Health says the ambulances can help provide immediate, potentially life-saving care to people having a stroke and get the specific kind of care they need through the ambulance’s stroke-oriented emergency medical equipment and staff onboard.
The city put more than $855,000 in funding toward seven new, full-time JFRD positions to keep the ambulance running…