MONOC ALS service to Discontinue

MONOC the provider for Mobil ICU paramedic services at the Jersey shore including Monmouth and Ocean counties will be discontinuing as of April 1, 2020. Hatzolah and EMT's usually provide BLS basic Lifesaving services MONOC paremedics provide ALS advanced life service medical such as  inserting breathing tubes into patients, IV, or give medicine to patients among other treatments. Hatzolah paramedics have  partnered with Monoc to provide ALS service in the greater Lakewood area.
 Monoc officials said that operational services will be taken over and split up across NJ by the Hackensack/Meridian and Robert Wood Johnson Barnabas health systems. The Lakewood area will be covered by RWJBH.

 In a letter to employees monoc wrote they experienced  a challenging financial environment caused by declining reimbursements and increasing payor restrictions, while the costs of running a high quality, high performance EMS and medical transport program, continued to rise over the last few years