[sunny46]

Has anyone had a recent bad experience with the new Sumter EMS company? We did on Tuesday the 25th. First, they were slow responding to our call and I was told the dispatch mixed up our call! The EMT didn't know how to get out of The Villages to go to Munroe. The EMT working on my husband blew his vein since she didn't know how to do the procedure. I was told Sumter County only has 2 trucks for the whole county!! They recommended we go to Munroe Regional since The Villages nor Leesburg had an EMT doctor. Guess who saw my husband @ Munroe, after laying on a gurney for 6 hours.... a nurse practioner. She said no ENTwould be called. This is a disgrace when the builder just had to build a new cancer center here while we have a great one in Tampa and in the Villages. Why didn't they build a trauma center here instead? There were 5 calls in The Villages while we were in the ambulance!!! Yet traumas have to go to Tampa, Orlando or Gainesville with our aged population!