Denver EMS - fridge in the EMS lounge at Saint Anthonys North Broken

[chaz90]

Big city hospitals seem to consistently have EMS rooms to provide an incentive for EMS crews to suggest transport to that facility over others. In small towns and rural areas, the closest hospital is it. No need to motivate when you have a monopoly.

 

[OnceAnEMT]

Big city hospitals seem to consistently have EMS rooms to provide an incentive for EMS crews to suggest transport to that facility over others. In small towns and rural areas, the closest hospital is it. No need to motivate when you have a monopoly.

I'm going to disagree with that assumption. Crews may complain, sure, but they shouldn't be a crew if they are changing Pt care based on the crew's own privilege.

 

[NomadicMedic]

Are you serious? When you have 5 hospitals all within a 15 minute drive, the crew will usually talk a patient into going where the snacks are. It's not changing patient care, it is simply a transport decision.

 

[Pocn]

Yeah staging areas might have a slight impact on where the tasty stuff is but never has it effected what ED the Pt goes too. Only two things that will have any influence on what hospital to go to is if the pt is stable enough to go to there PCP or unstable and gets closest ED.