Baltimore EMS responds to 11 overdoses in Penn North in October 2025. Photo credit: Jessica Gallagher / The Baltimore Banner.
Baltimore EMS responds to 11 overdoses in Penn North in October 2025. Photo credit: Jessica Gallagher / The Baltimore Banner.

Baltimore’s Emergency Medical Services says offload times at hospitals are causing a pain for the system and for patients.

Offload times are the length between when an ambulance arrives at a hospital and when that patient begins getting care within the emergency department.

James Matz, Baltimore’s assistant deputy of emergency medical services, told the City Council Public Safety Committee this week that 90% of the time those offloads were taking about 50 minutes.

Read more (and listen) at WYPR.

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