How Many Responses?

[Richard B the EMT]

While I have not had a chance yet to verify this, as per a letter to the editor in the New York Daily News' "Voice Of The People", Friday January 11, 2008 edition, an EMT from Manhattan, under caption "Answering The call", wrote

Did anyone else notice the number of calls EMS responded to in 2007? There were 1,187,602. That's a lot. Maybe we should get a proper contract.

The contract will be discussed in a different string.

How many responses did YOUR department/squad/corps/company/agency do in 2007?

[JPINFV]

Per a post on here from one of the managers at my old company, 80k with about 35% of them "emergent" (going to the ER). That probably includes RN/RT CCT calls, standard IFT calls (discharge, dialysis, etc), the children's hospital contract (different "division" so to speak) as well as a smaller operation in a different county.

[strippel]

We did more than 29,000 last year, up about 2,000 from 2006.

Our average is about 60% 911, and the rest IFT.

[Niftymedi911]

FY 2007: 74,742 9-1-1 calls

3600 transfers with our ALS/BLS interfacility transfer divison

1200 Pt's by MedStar

Average population in Lee County: 850,000.

[vs-eh?]

310,000ish, for a single city, single EMS service city....

I don't remember what my pager said prior to hitting the new year...

Keep in mind that certain calls (like standbys) don't count in the call count.

[courageheartx]

Calgary last year,pushed approx 120,000 calls during 2007.

[mediccjh]

I think we did about 130,000 across the river from you in Brick City.

[JakeEMTP]

County population roughly 150,000.

EMS calls roughly 25,000. I haven't a clue about the BLS transfer calls.

[p3medic]

A little over 100k, with 15 BLS and 5 ALS.

[croaker260]

Approx 300K live in county with about another 200K commuting in for work.

We ran 21K last year, averaging between 3 and 12% growth for each year over the last decade.

We now have 12 EMS units, 4 of which are 12 hour peak cars and the rest are 24 hour cars.