call volume

[MedicAsh]

I think I need to move to a bigger area. LOL

Our calls for the first county are about 1000 per year

On the second county I am on, we run around 800.

Both places are medic staffed 24/7 one ambulance and they have other ambulances available for call that are staffed with an on call crew (not always an ALS crew) We work 12 hour shifts and usually 6 days on and 7 off.

[nypamedic43]

We run about 16K a year including IFT transports. 911 calls are an average of 14K and the rest are IFT. 6 crews during the day and 4 at night. We have 10 ambulances and run a minumum of 3 double medic crews that can be split and put with basics to make 9 crews total if needed. (The 10th rig is a POS and the boss wanted us to take it and drive into the river while we were on deployment for the flooding in Sept) An average day is 40 - 50 calls during the day shift which is 8 am to 5 pm. Night shift is 5 pm to 8 am. My schedule is 5 9 hour days but the norm is 24 hour shifts and in some cases 33 hour shifts.

There have been days that each crew does 10 calls in 9 hours. We cover all of Chemung County NY, part of northern Bradford County PA and part of Tioga County PA, hence the dual cert.

[tcripp]

Kyle, what are you doing with this random information?

[HERBIE1]

I think I need to move to a bigger area. LOL

Our calls for the first county are about 1000 per year

On the second county I am on, we run around 800.

Both places are medic staffed 24/7 one ambulance and they have other ambulances available for call that are staffed with an on call crew (not always an ALS crew) We work 12 hour shifts and usually 6 days on and 7 off.

There are pros and cons to busy systems. Pros- generally you see an incredible variety of stuff, and your skills are sharper.

Cons- Lots of BS calls, and it takes a toll on your body- physically and mentally.

I guess the grass is always greener...

[Bieber]

As a service we run about 56,000 calls per year across 14-18 trucks (we staff additional trucks during the day). Each crew is assigned to 2 or 3 posts that they rotate through, switching every month. One of my posts is the busiest in the county and we run an average of 6-14 calls per 12 hours working downtown in the major county city, and at my other post we average around 1-4 calls per 12 hours working in one of the small rural towns in the county.

[Richard B the EMT]

NYC has roughly 3,000 calls per day, split between about 250+ ambulances. The figures came to about 2 point 3 MILLION calls during 2010.

[ERDoc]

The volley service I used to ride for had an annual volume of 1200 calls. The county had a total of 111,000 EMS calls in 2004 handled by 82 departments (I'm not sure of the latest stats).

[hatelilpeepees]

we hadd 299 calls last year, dont know this years numbers

Less than a call per day ? Do you get paid or are you volunteer ?

[MedicAsh]

Less than a call per day ? Do you get paid or are you volunteer ?

It shouldn't matter if they are volley or paid. You have to remember that some rural services don't get the call volumes. Also it may be a smaller response area. I know there are times we go days without calls. They also could be talking actual patient contact calls and not standby, lift assist, etc.

[craig]

well our area constanly does around 250- 300 ++ jobs a day

the service does well over a 1000 ++ jobs an day and past a million transports a year