Well you gotta hand it to the VP of Paramedics Plus in Sioux Falls, he’s learning, instead of just bald face lying to the public, he just won’t answer questions at all. And hey, he’s got Jill Franken on his side;
Sioux Falls Public Health Director Jill Franken described the changes as part of a 60-day pilot program aimed at decreasing reliance on outside aid from neighboring services, but she wouldn’t elaborate on how it would achieve that goal.
“Isn’t it fair to say we don’t yet know the results of the pilot test?†Franken said.
Jill, I think the question was ‘what is the plan’ not ‘what are the results’. I know you are a smart girl and all, you know the difference between the two? Right? I could call you and explain the difference between those two questions but it may be too complicated to answer over the phone.
Franken said under the new, temporary dispatching rules, firefighters will be sent to fewer lower-level medical calls. The department has more than 30 trained paramedics on staff.
That’s funny, because when Jill was asked if the tax payers and the SFFD was subsidizing PP she said ‘we were splitting hairs’ but now all of sudden she is cutting back on that ‘assistance’.
It will be interesting to see how this ‘pilot test’ turns out. Isn’t it great Sioux Falls patients in emergency situations are being used as guinea pigs? Sounds more like the city and PP can’t stand to give Med-Star even a few crumbs, so they devise secret plans to avoid them.
Playing politics with Event Centers and swimming pools is one thing, but when you play politics with the health and well-being of citizens and tell us it is ‘too complicated’ to explain, that’s just wrong.