{"id":5489,"date":"2014-04-07T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/?p=5489"},"modified":"2014-04-07T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T13:16:43","slug":"asm-adds-second-type-ii-bariatric-ambulance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/asm-adds-second-type-ii-bariatric-ambulance\/","title":{"rendered":"ASM Adds Second Type III Bariatric Ambulance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5491\" title=\"Ambulance Service of Manchester Bariatric Ambulance Stryker Power Load\" alt=\"Ambulance Service of Manchester Bariatric Ambulance Stryker Power Load\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bariatric-2-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bariatric-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bariatric-2-500x250.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Bariatric-2.jpg 921w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>MANCHESTER &#8212; On March 21, 2014 the Ambulance Service of Manchester put in service a second Type III ambulance for the transport of morbidly obese patients as well as for use with certain flight, specialty and critical care transport teams. The ambulance is identically equipped to ASM and Aetna&#8217;s existing bariatric ambulances, complete with a Stryker Power-LOAD stretcher lift system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Capable of lifting a maximum patient weight of 700 pounds, it is the company&#8217;s belief that the Stryker Power-LOAD is the safest overall bariatric ambulance equipment. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/03\/stryker-power-stretcher-system-deployed-on-bariatric-ambulances\/?preview=true&amp;preview_id=2848&amp;preview_nonce=c6c264ba27&amp;post_format=standard\">Read more about what makes the Power-LOAD system the safest..<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3116\" title=\"STRYKER Power Load Stretcher - Aetna ASM Ambulance\" alt=\"STRYKER Power Load Stretcher - Aetna ASM Ambulance\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Power-Load-Stretcher-2-300x199.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Power-Load-Stretcher-2-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Power-Load-Stretcher-2-451x300.png 451w, https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Power-Load-Stretcher-2.png 752w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Adding an additional bariatric ambulance is part of ASM and Aetna&#8217;s continued commitment to the communities and clients the companies serve.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANCHESTER &#8212; On March 21, 2014 the Ambulance Service of Manchester put in service a second Type III ambulance for the transport of morbidly obese patients as well as for use with certain flight, specialty and critical care transport teams. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/asm-adds-second-type-ii-bariatric-ambulance\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,53,54],"tags":[327,378,404,405,377,376],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5489"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5494,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5489\/revisions\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asm-aetna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}