Hudson County EMS leaders say COVID-19 has left its scars -- chronic staffing shortages

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Mike McCabe, president and CEO of McCabe Ambulance in Bayonne, expected COVID-19 to help make what he considers an overdue societal shift in the prioritization of EMS. To his shock, the opposite occurred.

Across Hudson County the healthcare industry and municipalities marked the work and heroism of emergency medical technicians this week. But behind the celebrations is a disturbing trend in the EMS community: These first-responders, many times the difference between life and death, have left the job at an alarming rate.

The recognition during the 50th annual National EMS Week is a brief moment of recognition for an industry still suffering from aftershocks of a pandemic that shook the nation and sent emergency healthcare workers into a 24/7 mode for months on end. Just when the coronavirus pandemic was under control, overwhelmed and burnt-out EMTs started leaving the job in droves, EMS leaders across the county say.

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