{"id":8572,"date":"2025-10-20T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8572\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:00:08","slug":"upper-darby-hires-ambulance-service-to-replace-crozer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/8572\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Darby hires ambulance service to replace Crozer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper Darby Township announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with STAT EMS Medical Transport to provide emergency medical services, basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS).<\/p>\n<p>The service begins Monday \u201caligning with the end of Crozer Health\u2019s EMS service in the region. STAT EMS will be fully equipped to deliver timely and professional medical transport and on-scene emergency care,\u201d the township said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority has always been the safety and well-being of our residents. This alliance with STAT will provide for that,\u201d said Mayor Edward Brown. \u201cI\u2019m pleased that, through the efforts led by CAO (Chief Administrative Officer Crandall) Jones and Interim Fire Chief (Brian) Boyce, we were able to come up with a solution to such a critical and complex issue in a very short period; and I appreciate the Township Council\u2019s support getting this done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby reminded residents to call 911 in the event of an emergency. Calls will be directed to the appropriate responding unit to ensure the fastest response.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can find out more information and get ongoing updates at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upperdarby.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.upperdarby.org<\/a> or follow the township\u2019s social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: April 23, 2025 at 4:55 PM EDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Upper Darby Township announced Wednesday that it has reached an agreement with STAT EMS Medical Transport to provide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[212,182,139,28,210,147,149,148,150],"class_list":["post-8572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-delaware-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-dtd","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}