The bankruptcy of TransCare, a private company that provided ambulance coverage to large parts of the Bronx and some areas in Manhattan, has the city’s Emergency Medical Service scrambling to shift ambulances and crews from across the five boroughs, the New York Times reported today. In all, TransCare used to provide 81 ambulance tours a day in the city; it was teetering for months, so officials knew they needed a contingency plan. For now, the city has patched the problem, though the medics are starting to become frayed from the extra hours or the trips to boroughs outside their regular assignments, and warm weather, the busiest time of the year for medical emergencies, is coming up.
