A lot of us suffer from back issues, but what if you had to lift up to 400lbs several times in a day? Coffee County Emergency Medical Service (EMS) employees do just that. Soon they will get some relief with purchase of powered ambulance cots. The five cots will be bought from Stryker EMS and will cost about $80,000. The powered cots will raise or lower patients with a touch of a button, thus reducing risk of injury. Now ambulance personnel have to raise and lower patients manually.
In August Coffee County EMS workers were called out around 800 times.
Coffee County EMS to purchase New Cots
