Friday, April 4, 2025
4/4/2025
Community Project Funding/Congressionally Directed Spending - Construction - Address: 550 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 Project Director Name: Gilda Ventresca Ecroyd Contact Phone Number: 212-404-4077 Email Address: gilda.ventresca-ecroyd@nyulangone.org Website Address: www.nyulangone.org NYU Langone Hospitals is seeking support for the purchase of six (6) energy efficient ambulances to renew our 911 Emergency Services ambulance fleet. This project will provide direct benefit to the local communities we serve by decreasing air pollution while maintaining excellent pre-hospital care and service. NYU Langone Hospitals’ Emergency Medical Service (EMS) provides high quality pre-hospital care at the basic and advanced life support level for Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and Long Island. NYU Langone Hospitals also provides emergency ambulance coverage within the New York City FDNY 911 System as well as stand-by coverage for special events, such as community festivals and marathons, when requested. Since NYU Langone Hospitals’ EMS began providing ambulances to the surrounding neighborhoods in 1972, it has proven to be a vital part of the community. We respond to approximately 80,000 911 calls annually and transport approximately 51,300 patients. NYU Langone Hospitals’ EMS has worked to decrease ambulance response times in the service area neighborhoods while providing patients with excellent basic and advanced life support care. Multiple existing ambulances need to be replaced annually to ensure that we have reliable vehicles on the road to respond to emergencies. Energy efficient ambulances will enable NYU Langone Hospitals to continue to provide high quality pre-hospital patient care to residents, workers, and visitors in New York City and Long Island, regardless of their ability to pay while reducing our impact on the environment. NYU Langone Hospitals’ EMS maintains a total fleet of thirty-two ambulances. Multiple existing ambulances need to be replaced annually to ensure that we have reliable vehicles on the road to respond to emergencies. As our vehicles reach the end of their useful life and need to be replaced, we are working to transition the fleet to energy efficient ambulances. This hybrid technology significantly reduces carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides and greenhouse gas emissions by eliminating engine idling, thereby lowering noise pollution and improving the environment. Residents of NYC are exposed to high levels of air pollution in the form of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from combustion activity, including the burning of fuel in vehicles. PM2.5 is the most harmful urban air pollutant, resulting in adverse respiratory and cardiovascular health outcomes and contributing to an increased risk of death and lower life expectancy. In the community districts where our hospitals are located in New York City, the levels of the most harmful air pollutant, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) are higher than the borough-wide and New York City averages. By decreasing our contributions to air pollution, we will have a positive impact on the populations we serve, and in particular those residents with upper respiratory illnesses such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
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