By Liese Klein

The Middletown Press

NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Wrapped in distinctive shades of " Yale New Haven Health blue,” a brand new ambulance served as the backdrop Monday for an event celebrating the hospital system’s first acquisition of a medical transport firm.

Yale New Haven Health completed its purchase of North Haven’s Nelson Ambulance Service this month, adding about 225 employees, 29 ambulances and 28 other patient transport vehicles to its core operations in New Haven and Fairfield counties.

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“This has been a missing component of our health system,” Yale New Haven Health CEO Christopher O’Connor told a group of employees, local leaders and guests at Nelson’s facility at 208 Quinni

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