Serra Medical Transportation Burlingame

A number of elderly and disabled people and medical patients use medical transport services to be transported from their homes or nursing homes to a dialysis clinic, or doctor’s office, for outpatient treatment or to a hospital. Surprisingly, a number of such passengers are injured in the course of transportation. Injuries are often caused because of negligence on the part of the transport company in improperly securing the patient or leaving the patient unattended. Most common examples of these medical transport injuries are slip and fall accidents, injuries while getting in and out of a medical transport vehicle, accidents in transit because the patient has not been properly secured, wheelchair accidents, and accidents on sidewalks, in parking lots in elevators, hospitals, medical offices and nursing homes. What is the responsibility of the medical transport company? A medical transport company is a business which advertises the services it provides

When you believe you or someone else is experiencing a medical emergency, you need an ambulance or emergency medical transportation to transport you or the person needing immediate medical care to the nearest hospital or emergency room. But pause for a moment to consider the implications. Even if you are covered by health insurance, the co-payments and deductible is a formidable figure. So before you reach out for your phone, consider carefully whether your situation is so critical that you really need emergency medical transportation. An ambulance ride is expensive, more expensive than you might have imagined. Just to give you an example, the Mayor of NYC in his 2011 report said that the average ambulance ride costs $1,099, a tab picked up by the taxpayer. What alternatives do you have? The first thing you can do is to call your doctor. If you have no one to drive you, call a cab. Unless it’s absolutely essential, don’t call 911. J