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able to arrive at any hospital within thirty
minutes. Client additionally benefit from
the company’s installation of a red phone
that direct dials to the communications
center. This enables nurses to quickly ac-
cess SeniorCare without having to spend
time looking-up phone numbers. Vatch
says the totality of such innovations has
helped SeniorCare E.M.S. emerge as the
best choice for medical transportation in
New York.
Beyond the transportation services,
SeniorCare EMS has also evolved to of-
fer critical evacuation training and emer-
gency management in the case of disas-
ters. Vatch explains that in the wake of
the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001,
many New York hospitals have stepped-
up training to better respond to such sce-
narios. However, he says smaller nursing
home do not always the fiscal and hu-
man resources to effectively undertake
this training. SeniorCare’s training and
on-site assistance has since proven cru-
cial to facilities dealing with emergen-
cies prompted by Hurricane Sandy and
other storm events which forced evacu-
ations. What’s more, because it serve
such a wide network of nursing homes,
whenever one encounters an emergency,
