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Local county may face longer emergency wait times amid ambulance service changes

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COATESVILLE, Pa. - Tower Health announces Western Chester County will lose Medic 93 EMS services.Months after losing two hospitals, Tower Health announced Tuesday that some of those same communities will lose their EMS services come September.The medical group said in a statement that they are consolidating Medic 93 EMS from four locations down to two in September.

The new locations will focus on a service area around Reading, Northern Chester and Montgomery counties, and the 422 corridor.This change in service means TowerDIRECT will no longer work out of three units in Western Chester County that provide Advanced Life Support to about ten different municipalities: the former Brandywine Hospital, the Washington Hose Fire Department (FD) and Keystone Valley FD in Parkesburg.The Chester County EMS Council says that leaves those municipalities, like Coatesville, in a scramble to find a new agency in 90 days, mid-budget cycle.MORE HEADLINESPolice: 34-year-old man dead after being shot multiple times inside his vehicle in CrescentvilleDepartment of Homeland Security bulletin warns of heightened extremist threatFired Philadelphia man threatens shooting at former job, police sayIf Coatesville cannot find a new agency by the fall, if someone calls 911 with a medical emergency, paramedics will have to come from other municipalities that are already stretched too thin."That would be coming from a distance from what they are used to receiving when there was a paramedic unit stationed at Brandywine Hospital, says Chester County EMS Council Vice President, Matthew Eick.

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