EMS failed to assess two patients, complaint says

Published September 27, 2007 4:00am ET



The day after a task force delivered its recommendations to improve the District of Columbia’s emergency medical care, D.C. Fire and EMS crews failed to properly assess at least two patients, according to complaints by two hospitals.

Howard University Hospital and Providence Hospital doctors both lodged complaints that protocol wasn’t followed by firefighters inincidents that occurred Friday.

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