MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – The City Council on Tuesday delayed consideration of new regulations for private ambulance companies to provide time to consider proposed amendments.
The Mobile Fire-Rescue Department has been working for months to update its ordinance. Two private companies currently transfer patients among hospitals and to other health care facilities. In exchange for those moneymaking duties, they must respond to lower-level 911 calls requiring basic life support. Those calls typically are not profitable.
The private companies free up Mobile Fire-Rescue Department ambulances to respond to more-serious emergency calls requiring advanced life support…