Ilsley in the Press: Letter to the Editor: Recent crisis spoke volumes

Addison Independent

October 12, 2023
By Barbara Doyle-Wilch & Pam Shafer

A few days ago, we were in the Ilsley Public Library and witnessed a medical incident in the lobby that was disturbing. The staff responded quickly to call 911 and the medics arrived and brilliantly handled the medical needs.

However, when it became clear that the patient needed to be taken to the hospital on the gurney, the team determined that a gurney would not fit in the elevator and the stairs leading to the side entrance were too constricted to manage the turns (an ambulance was waiting in the parking lot). A second ambulance was then called to the front door so the patient could be carried on a backboard, down the front stairway to the street, where they could put her on a gurney and take her to the hospital. Read the rest of the article here.