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 December 2023 - Alert Ambulance awarded a 5 year contract with the VA hospitals in Massachusetts.  Previously this contract was with Brewster Ambulance headquartered in Weymouth, MA. The veterans hospitals are a large patient provider with numerous calls each year. Strategically this might have been in Brewsters favor as they calls garnered from these facilities tend to have a wide pull on resources if you are not positioned to take ambulances from outside of Boston and bring them into the city.  Alert may be in a better position to service these calls while also growing there company as they continue to expand their presence outside of Rhode Island.  The contract is a 5 year contract with VA Boston Healthcare.

Back in October 2017,  The Department of Public Health was alerted by Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation of their closing on Oct. 31. The plan was to close by mid January. January 9th to be precise. Now,  New England Sinai Acute Long-Term Care And Rehabilitation Hospital also in Stoughton has announced their plans to file about the first week of January. By December of 2023, mployees had been urged to start using their PTO up as soon as they can. The facility is part of Steward Healthcare. The company is based out of Dallas, Texas and has other facilities in Massachusetts including Norwood Hospital which has been closed due to flooding back in June of 2020 and Carney Hospital which is also plagued with financial issues. Steward Healthcare operates in 8 states in total and has a large, though shrinking, presence in Massachusetts. New England Sinai has been one of the few specialty facilities of its kind  South of Boston, comparable to the likes Vibra Hosptial out in New Bedford around 3