Image: Huron County ambulance.
Several million dollars in ambulance funding for Huron County has been announced by the province.
The Ontario government announced $8,422,813 in the County of Huron through the Land Ambulance Service Grant (LASG).
The news comes as the province announces an eight per cent rise in ambulance funding through the grant, to help municipalities offset rising costs so they can continue delivering high-quality emergency care.
In addition, Ontario is investing $33 million across the province through the Dedicated Offload Nurses Program to hire nurses and other eligible health professionals dedicated to offloading ambulance patients in hospital emergency departments.
As a result of this investment and collaboration between paramedics and hospital professionals, provincial ambulance offload times have been reduced by approximately 68 per cent since their peak in October 2022.