Austin-Travis EMS temporary pilot program could free up ambulances

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In a document obtained by KXAN, Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Robert Luckritz said that the agency continues "to innovate and challenge the status quo of EMS deployment" but that its current mode of operations are "not sustainable.""The department has become increasingly dependent on the use of overtime, on-call pay, and calling employees into work on their days off. As the department approaches full staffing, this model is not sustainable," he wrote.
Luckritz explained in