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Improving EMS Deployment Performance

High Performance EMS

While response is a simple and common measure, it clearly does not evaluate EMS well and certainly fails to encapsulate many of its complex needs and values. EMS agencies typically target a UHU of between 0.30 Still, I feel the necessity to address the time objective briefly before going on to other important aspects.

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CPSE – FirstWatch Webinar: Fire Operations and Accreditation Monitoring and Reporting

FirstWatch

He also worked in a Fire/EMS communications center as call-taker, radio-operator and shift supervisor. All provided with maximum flexibility that allows you to report operational performance across any time period and for any geographic area by Apparatus, Equipment, Station, Battalion or District.

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Optimizing Demand Forecasts

High Performance EMS

Again, Jack Stout recommended modeling each hour of each day for a total of 168 unique timeframes of the week. Part of his justification is the average busy time of a unit being about an hour and to simplify the calculation of a Unit Hour Utilization (UHU).

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