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         Mayor Menino Tufts Medical Center

          Dedicate New Boston EMS Station

The City of Boston and Tufts Medical Center dedicated a new Boston EMS ambulance station in Chinatown today. The ambulance station enables the City to permanently locate two more ambulances in a dense area near downtown Boston as well as providing accessible and immediate emergency medical services to the Chinatown community and surrounding neighborhoods. Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and Ellen Zane, President and CEO of Tufts Medical Center, kicked off the dedication ceremony along with Boston EMS Chief James Hooley; John Townsend, Director of Administration and Finance for the Boston Public Health Commission, and Bill Moy, co-moderator of the Chinatown Neighborhood Council.

?The City is proud to partner with Tufts Medical Center on this great project that will help Boston EMS provide rapid, critical care for our residents Mayor Menino said?Tufts has demonstrated once again their dedication to their surrounding community.?

Boston EMS employs over 350 EMTs and Paramedics who respond to an average of 300 emergencies each day, and more than 100,000 each year. With one of the busiest services in the country, Boston EMS will utilize this new station to help alleviate the heavy load downtown. The new station will make shift changes more efficient and cut down the time ambulances currently spend going to Brighton to re-fuel and re-stock medical supplies. By operating more efficiently, the new EMS ambulance station will help yield savings to the City of Boston in fuel and time, while benefiting the community by reducing emissions from idling.

This ambulance station will not only help us improve the way we serve the surrounding neighborhoods, but will benefit all residents and visitors of Boston. This station also provides a respite for the dedicated staff who respond to these high volume areas, EMS Chief Hooley said?I'd like to thank Tufts once again for all their efforts to make this station a reality.

The new EMS ambulance station is located at 25 Harvard Street in a formerly unused loading dock belonging to Tufts Medical Center. The station provides an enclosed parking area for two ambulances as well as a rest area and locker-room space for the EMS technicians that will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The ambulances will not sound sirens as they leave the station, and will take all necessary precautions to ensure safe operation by accounting for pedestrian and automotive traffic in the area.

Tufts Medical Center is honored to play a role in this important contribution to the health and well-being of the City and the local community, said Ellen Zane. ?We look forward to helping provide even better emergency health care and access to the community.?