Ambulance Rides Drop as More Patients Take Uber to ERs

Yeah, it varies a lot. One of the squads was manned at the station from like 6am to 10pm, but on weekends and nights they still responded from home so the response times during the week for the first call out were significantly better but up to 15 minutes was still acceptable.

When I left EMS they were working on trying to make the numbers better around the state. Most police stations lost their local dispatch centers as requirements changed around the state, and the large dispatch centers seem to be fans of if a squad doesn't start moving in 15 minutes to go to mutual aid. For much of the state I feel this is ideal and I'm in favor, it gets the slower squads to get their shit together, although it is incredibly annoying to be responding to a far away mutual aid only to get there and have their ambulance show up a few minutes later wanting to take the patient.

And it wasn't 15 minutes as the goal, it was a 15 minute requirement to get on the radio and if nobody else responded in 20 minutes to go to mutual aid, but any response shorter than those 15 minutes and the captain didn't have any complaints. I really disliked that captain for a whole slew of reasons

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