Brooks-Powers asks for end-to-end time to hospital by district
Council Member Selvena Brooks-Powers says response time stops when the ambulance arrives, but for isolated communities the clock runs until hospital arrival. She asks FDNY for full 911-to-hospital time by council district and why Queens saw a drop in calls reached within 10 minutes; Miano says he will look for the data.
Thank you, chairs, and thank you to the agencies represented today.
At last month's hearing on the Rockaways, FDNY testified that EMS response times on the peninsula are below the citywide average, but response time stops the moment the ambulance arrives, as it was just indicated again.
For a resident of the Rockaways or another isolated community, the clock that matters runs until they reach a hospital that they can receive treatment.
Can the FDNY provide these committees with the full time from the 911 call to the hospital arrival by council district?
Right now, I cannot, but it is something that we will look for.
When we get back, we'll look for it and provide you what we have.
I appreciate that.
Queens saw the biggest drop of any borough this year in calls reached within 10 minutes.
Can you share why this is, especially with a decreased number of calls overall?
And just a follow-up right before you answer that.
Is FDNY currently monitoring how often areas are affected by not having sufficient ambulance coverage?
And does that lack of coverage contribute to delayed calls?
So I'll do your last question first.
We actively monitor 24 hours a day call volume throughout the city.
And our CRCC, which is our Central Coordination Resource Center, that redeploys ambulances from one area of the city to another, areas that have a
lower call volume and higher availability into areas that have a higher call volume and lower availability.
So we are constantly monitoring that and moving units around.
You know, the NY in FDNY truly stands for New York City.
An ambulance that starts its day in one part of a borough may end up in another part of a borough, you know, to assist and help anywhere that we have deficiencies in coverage.
As far as call volume goes.
We've already responded to 1.2 million calls this year, and over 480,000 of those calls have been of segment one through three or life-threatening emergency calls.
So our call volume remains high.
And if you can just...
I don't remember the whole question you asked first.
Sorry.
The one right before that one was just talking about Queens as a borough, seeing a drop, the biggest drop of any borough this year in calls reached within 10 minutes, I think it was said.
But we wanted to understand better as to why, considering that there's been a decreased number of...
Of calls overall?
I don't think the call volume decrease has been substantial enough.
Like I said, we are at the middle of October, towards the end of October, and we've already responded to 1.2 million calls.
So I think we are right on par with where we've been over the last few years.