ambulance services

Union president Stewart Eubanks says AMR recently boosted EMT wages in the county by 70 percent and paramedic pay by 58 percent.

To keep emergency services afloat in rural areas, communities will have to go beyond volunteer-based programs to get people to distant hospitals, experts say. Meanwhile, some 911 calls go unanswered.

County commissioners picked an ad hoc committee of five volunteers steeped in EMS and hospital management to look into several options.

Nine Jacksonville-area hospitals and an ambulance service have agreed to pay the federal government about $7.5 million related to charges it improperly…