Comments on: Startup Hopes To Provide Non-Emergency Medical Transportation In North Escambia

By: Markwinstone

Markwinstone — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 20:01:14 +0000

This is another grift for cash at tax payers expense .

Please don’t take an ambulance for non emergency care.

The folks in century will NOT pay for this service and insurance is not obligated to pay either.

Once a hospital releases you…..
It’s your responsibility to find transportation, cab ,Lyft, private person, bus for part of the way, move in town and live on a bus line, or get home care.

There are better options that won’t cost tax payers.

By: Bama

Bama — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 19:43:40 +0000

Anybody who works in a hospital can attest to the fact that there is definitely a need and demand for this type of service. Hospitals get backed up EVERYDAY due to transportation issues of patients that have no way to get home. There are a lot of patients that are bedbound at home and can’t travel by regular automobile or wheelchair and require stretcher transport, and NO insurance does not pay for an ambulance based on that alone. Also, the ambulance situation in this and surrounding areas is not good. They are almost always backed up. I’m not sure what their business plan is, but if done correctly and if they are going to service areas such as Pensacola, yes there is great need. Again, I don’t know their business plan, or if their going to offer stretcher and wheelchair, etc, but to say there isn’t a demand or need is false!

By: JohnQ

JohnQ — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 23:38:34 +0000

@Tammi.

It’s not a question of if someone has a need for a ride….

This business won’t succeed because it’s not going to be profitable…

The vehicles /insurance staff etc….will cost $$ and the area doesn’t have a dense enough population to support such a business.

That is the same reason there are few restaurants, malls , movie theaters, car dealerships, hospitals etc…in rural areas

By: Tammi

Tammi — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:36:42 +0000

I work in the medical transportation field and I agree these types of services are needed. The cost is not going to he comparable to what non medical transportation cost. The drivers and the companies that provide this service, are sometimes asked to do alot more than just drive. In over twenty plus years of driving paratransit vehicles, I could write a book on the varying conditions of released patients. I can’t speak on this couple’s ability to provide, but there is always a need for the transportation component.

By: Mr Robert

Mr Robert — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:54:39 +0000

@not location:

I think Cindy Lou is correct, That particular business will fail partially because a terrible location amongst many other things.

Medicaid and Medicare will not compensate enough for a rural non medical ride share business to sustain itself. And definitely the folks that live out there won’t pay out of pocket.

I hope Navy Federal doesn’t fund this ridiculous fake business

By: Not location

Not location — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:05:52 +0000

@CindyLou, second variable is not location. Many many businesses these days have no physical location. Second variable is market saturation. Is the service in demand? Is someone else (or many someones) already providing the service?

Location is further down the line than those these days.

By: Bewildered

Bewildered — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 17:34:47 +0000

This transportation service is not meant to be utilized by people paying for it out of their own pocket. TV ads featuring prominent millionaire fat cats offer all kinds of free services to people on Medicaid and other government assistance. Additional social security money, free healthcare, free transportation, free meals and so on. When was anything ever to expensive for Uncle Sam? After all the taxpayers foot the bill.
Why work and save?

By: No way home.

No way home. — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 16:04:27 +0000

We need this BADLY at night in North SRC. I get people in my ER brought by ECEMS, DWMEMS, and SRCEMS, and sometimes by the SRCSO. They arrive in my ER and after they get treated, they’re discharged and have no way home. I am not allowed to let them stay in the bed all night, so I have to put them in the waiting room with a blanket. I’ve seen them sit out there for 10 hours. No one to call, no ride, and EMS isn’t a taxi. They show up and think the EMS will drive them home. During the day, the staff have options for cabs and other non-emergency transport, but at night you’re out of luck, and you’ll be testing the comfort of the waiting room until the sun comes up. If I had an option to call for a non-emergent transport or some other non-EMS option, I could get people back home. But as it is right now, I discharge people and they look at me, the nurse, like I need to conjure them a magic carpet or something. I can’t do that.

By: Cindylou

Cindylou — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:50:56 +0000

We already have this service it’s called Uber

When creating a business the first variable is “is this product or service in demand?

Second variable is location.

This will never work.

By: Bigblock345

Bigblock345 — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 14:16:40 +0000

Hey, I have $8,000 too. When can I get my $4.2 million dollar loan. I promise I’ll use it for good. “Just think of the children.”