Last week, Grady EMS in Atlanta told Baldwin Commissioners in a letter that they would not renew their contract once it expires in November
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — By November, Baldwin County could be without an ambulance service. That’s because Grady EMS in Atlanta told the county they’re not renewing their contract.
Some folks in Milledgeville rely heavily on the ambulance services, and that is particularly true for the 150 people who stay at Milledgeville’s Georgia War Veterans Home. For them, it’s priceless.
“I’m trying to do better. Physical therapy, bending my knees,” Jonathan Norwood said.
It’s his fifth year at the nursing home. He’s in therapy for one leg crushed in a car accident.
“It fractured in three places,” he remembers.
The other was lost to diabetes.
“The VA had to amputate,” Norwood said.
However, according to Georgia War Veterans Home Health Services Director Irona Liggens-Spikes, Norwood isn’t alone.
“Majority of them don’t walk, we have a lot of them that’s in wheelchairs,” Liggen-Spikes said. “A lot of them are bedbound.”
She says the veterans’ ages and ailments add up to a lot.
“A lot of them are chronic care patients. They have pulmonary, they have heart problems,” Liggens-Spikes said.
The Georgia War Veterans Home says they can provide basic care to their patients– like patching up a cut – but they can’t do much more than that. For almost anything else, they rely on ambulance services.
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