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Miano says average calls on hold varies moment to moment

New York City Council · Oct 20, 2026 · starts 0:53:17 · 37 sec

Ariola asks for the average number of calls on hold. Miano says the number is too dynamic to reduce to a single figure because it varies hour to hour and moment to moment, and the system holds lower-acuity calls while responding to life-threatening emergencies.

Joann Ariola

What is the average number of calls on hold?

Paul Miano

Again, it's not that I don't have it.

Paul Miano

It's just that it varies, literally varies from moment to moment.

Paul Miano

If we have high acuity calls coming in, they're not holding, right?

Paul Miano

But if we have an enormous amount of high acuity calls coming in and at the same time

Paul Miano

low acuity calls, we need to ensure the high acuity life-threatening emergencies are responded to and we may need to hold

Paul Miano

someone who is called up because they have an illness or an injury that does not meet the life-threatening criteria.