Systems that run 100K + calls a year

BEN52, did you leave ems or move to a slower department?
 
BEN52 said:
I left for a much slower suburban dual role department.
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That's what I plan to do in the next year. Working the high call volume, urban environment will kill me if I stay too long. It's been great for experience, though.
 
Welllllls. The 2014 data is not readily available, but I have full stats from 2013. Obviously, the numbers have increased, since then. This data is still relevant.

Total MEDICAL calls (only) in the Las Vegas metropolitan and surrounding areas to which an ambulance was dispatched (not including Henderson and Boulder City)

223,794

Of which
132,963 were CCFD (county fire non transporting agency)
90,831 were LVFR (city fire) (transporting agency that transported 16,351)

AMR & MedicWest responded to all, and handled the remaining 207,443 medical calls for service.

We also respond to lock outs, lock ins (vehicle), and stand-by for fire/police situations so you could add another 10-15k on to that if you were being conservative.
 
Wow. That's far busier than I thought Vegas would be actually. I'd be curious to find out how the numbers changed with the LVFR changes. I guess the CCFD numbers would be basically unchanged right?
 
120k+, SSM, High 30s/ low 40s units peak, half that at night, 6-10 calls a shift on average. Morale is otherwise good.

When I started at this agency a few years ago, our busiest summer days (400+ calls) are now what are "average" winter days are . Kind of sad.
 
IFT 300K+ calls per year, about 8 runs in a 12 hour shift. Stations? SSM? Hah! As of they'd ever let us stop moving. Moral is...not good. If it was 911 we'd all be past burnt out long ago.
 
Rin said:
IFT 300K+ calls per year, about 8 runs in a 12 hour shift. Stations? SSM? Hah! As of they'd ever let us stop moving. Moral is...not good. If it was 911 we'd all be past burnt out long ago.
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Thats 821 transports a day. You have 100+ trucks in your area with the same company doing IFT?
 
Chewy20 said:
Thats 821 transports a day. You have 100+ trucks in your area with the same company doing IFT?
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Some of those are overnight shifts, but yes. We have contracts with about 40 hospitals and 900 nursing homes. We basically have most of the county locked down, which includes a major metropolitan area.
 
Rin said:
Some of those are overnight shifts, but yes. We have contracts with about 40 hospitals and 900 nursing homes. We basically have most of the county locked down, which includes a major metropolitan area.
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900 nursing homes in less than one county? Move, far far away.
 
Where is this?
 
Chicago?
 
Almost sounds like it could be my first in district....</sarcasm...though not by much lol>
 
127,000 calls for 2016!!! Luckily we have increased our staffing throughout the year so the extra 10,000 calls (118,000 calls in 2015) didn't sting too bad.
 
Our last call at 2300 was just shy of 111,000th call, I'm sure we easily met that mark (in contrast my next run at 0230 was call 56 lol). We're working on increasing staffing, within the last two months alone we opened three new stations with 6 new 24 hour units alone (and at least 2 more 12 hour floating units) with plans in the works for an additional station for the new area we officially started today, somehow I don't doubt we'll end up easily busting 111K calls 365 days from now
 
Per my former employer's websites, 125,000 requests for service annually, 68,000 are handled by the BLS 911 division. 5 ALS ambulances 24/7 (and one CCT that gets pulled into the 911 system if they are available), 4 BLS ambulances 24/7, 4 12 hour power trucks in the afternoon and evening, plus a medevac.

Southern Division handles about 25,000 calls.

Full SSM, Morale sucked when I was there (and was one of the reasons I left), almost everyone there is trying to get off the ambulance by any means possible, and many were looking for better options, but didn't want to lose the decent pay and pension. I liked certain things about it, but at the end of the day, I'm very glad I left.
 
Per the county fire website we ran 155k calls in 2016.
 
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