EMS TRANSPORTS TO FOX ER TRIPLED
FROM 1ST DAYS OF PAST SCHOOL YEARS
Editor’s note: This article was reprinted from this week’s Hometown Oneonta, which is on newsstands this afternoon.
By LIBBY CUDMORE • allotsego.com
The number of Hartwick College and SUNY Oneonta students who have been taken to Fox Hospital more than tripled this fall from the same four-week period in 2013, according to Assistant Fire Chief Jim Maloney.
“There’s been a huge spike in calls this year,” he said.
HERE IS A BREAKDOWN OF EMT STATISTICS
Between Aug. 18 and Sept. 21 of this year, Oneonta EMS transported 50 college students to Fox Hospital, compared to 16 during the same period the year before, according to data obtained by Hometown Oneonta through the state Freedom of Information Law (FOIL).
“Those calls could be for injury, illness or from being intoxicated,” said Maloney.