Maiano thanks Council and describes ambulance redeployment changes
Maiano thanks the Council for supporting EMS and says he hears the committee's concerns. He describes a recent CAD change: when an ambulance leaves the peninsula for another hospital, it is placed in relocation status on the way back and only diverted to high-acuity calls like cardiac arrest, not low-acuity assignments.
So for EMS, if you just take one second before I answer that question, I just want to say that we as EMS, we hear...
The city council, we hear this committee and we appreciate you lobbying for us the way that you do.
We appreciate your help to get us a command car as well as other members of the council.
So that being said, you know, we hear it, we feel it, and we greatly appreciate it.
As I said earlier,
With our Central Resource Coordination Center, right, we are consistently looking at areas where there are low ambulance availability and moving things throughout the city.
One thing that we have done within the last few months was we have what we call a redeployment.
We changed the way we redeploy ambulances.
So now an ambulance that leaves the peninsula to go to another hospital, when they come available out of that other hospital, they are put in what's called a relocation status, and that allows them to get back to the peninsula,
and they do not get called for low-acuity assignments.
They only get called if they are the closest ambulance to a high-acuity assignment like a cardiac arrest.
So that's one way that we are, besides the 24-hour center looking and redeploying units in, that is one way that we've made an improvement very recently to our CAD system to be able to, it's automatic.
This is not something that has to be done by a person.
It is automatic.
They come available out of that hospital, and they are put on redirection back to that area.