5K Run To Benefit Ambulance Service
BAY RIDGE — If you have a heart attack in your home and have to be taken to a hospital, a Fire Department EMS ambulance will arrive to take you. But you’ll later get a bill for $700. If a paramedic helps you, the bill jumps to $1,200. The ride to the hospital will cost you $12 per mile.
Those figures were cited by Michelle Harrison, a member of the Bay Ridge Ambulance Volunteer Organization (BRAVO), at a recent Community Board 10 meeting.
BRAVO doesn’t charge patients for transportation to the hospital or for the services of paramedics, Harrison said.