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Posted: 11:07 PM Mar 12, 2008
Belvidere Ambulance Fight Heats Up
Right now two local hospitals are pitted against each other, in a fight over who should provide ambulance service in Belvidere. Swedish American leaders spoke out Wednesday over concerns OSF St. Anthony's is trying to steal away business.
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3 Comments 
Swedish American of Belvidere is not ready for full service yet. Maybe the administration should explain in the news medias what they are capable of taking care of. If I had a sub-contractor they would get preference who is under contract with Swedes? Same arguement could apply. Mayor and City Council should not buy into this paranoid thought process. After all Swedes isn't fully equiped or functional yet and they're already complaining!
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gee lets see some years ago Belvidere fire dept had emts. but what happened? if I rember right they were caught skipping training class that led to no longer having a ambulance service provied by the fire deptment. The county has grown big time.Capron has thier own ambulance service. genoa-kingston has thier own. kirkland has thier own. 3 small towns have thier own ambulance service.So why not Belvidere. Ohh im sure they would say they would have to raise taxs to provide the service from the city.
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superior ambulance is associated directly with swedish american hospital. they are far from impartial as swedes is one of their biggest accounts and they will be wanting to keep them happy. if anyone would transport to a hospital based on favoritism it is superior. talk to people that have worked there. they have consistantly done things that go against what ems teaches. they have held emergency calls for extended periods that should have gone to 911 just to make sure they got the call themselves.
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