Montgomery County facing $100 million budget deficit

Montgomery County is one of the wealthiest counties in the entire country, yet lawmakers say they’re facing a nearly $100 million budget shortfall. The news first appeared in Bethesda Magazine.

MCFRS launches program that transports patients to urgent care instead of emergency rooms

Montgomery County’s Fire and EMS softly launched a program in November that will allow patients in certain neighborhoods the option to be transported to an urgent care center instead of the hospital emergency room. So far, all of the patients who clinically qualified for the program have turned it down, but MCFRS officials are hoping it will pick up and expand.