Sentences with phrase «response of ambulances»

Coordinate response of ambulances and public safety units to emergency sites or in - progress crime situations

Not exact matches

A member of the American Medical Response (AMR) ambulance crew wheels a gurney into a residence during a medical call in Las Vegas, Nevada, March 24, 2011.

«We sent a number of resources to the scene, including a Thames Valley air ambulance, two ambulance crews, two ambulance officers and a rapid response vehicle.»

There are many reasons why an ambulance or other emergency response team might be unavoidably delayed in responding to an emergency (traffic, distance, inaccurate directions to the location, etc.) and each minute that passes reduces the victim's odds of survival by 10 % or more.

The typical scenario would be that something had gone dreadfully wrong and the community midwives, after exploring their options, would finally, and receiving nothing but hostile response from the various hospitals, would have the patient transported to the hospital by ambulance and then they would all bolt and just leave the patient in the emergency room and to the care of whoever was on emergency call.

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Ambulance Service, Professor Ahmed Nuhu Zakaria, explained that emergency response for the accident delayed because of logistic constraints.

As a unit of the Division of Emergency Medical Services, MERS [Medical Emergency Radio System] Control serves as the Erie County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Services dispatch center, coordinates ambulance responses for the City of Buffalo, responses on the New York State Thruway throughout Erie County and the Buffalo Niagara International Airport (B.N.I.A.).

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio's preliminary budget includes funding to decrease ambulance response times, replace the police department's older bulletproof vests and reform the Department of Buildings.

The New York Fire Department will get more funds as part of a budget proposal aimed at decreasing ambulance response times by 20 seconds.

During the height of the storm, he said, average response times were as long as 55 minutes, a result in large part of unplowed streets causing more than 100 ambulances to get stuck in snow

Welsh Lib Dem leader Kirsty Williams AM has slammed the Labour Government after a Freedom of Information response reveals Brecon and Radnorshire ambulances are being called to emergencies up to 80 miles away.

Commenting on the Welsh Governments response to the Welsh Ambulance review by Dr McClelland, Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Lib Dems, said:

Ambulance response data released under the new targeting system leaves us «in the dark» regarding the performance of the vast majority of emergency calls, the Welsh Liberal Democrats have said.

Kirsty Williams, leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, has described today's ambulance figures as «appalling» and «inexcusable», after they show the worst response times since records began.

The mayor also proposed an annual allotment of $ 18 million to add ambulance shifts and hire dozens of new dispatchers to improve response times for the city's ambulances, which lagged last year, especially on Staten Island and in Queens and the Bronx.

Speaking at the unveiling ceremony, Deputy Minister of Health, Tina Gifty Mensah, said the resources Captain Smart and his team would generated will be used to procure new ambulances to enhance the country's emergency response capabilities.

They also cover: Proportion of calls closed with telephone advice or managed without transport to A&E; Re-contact rate following discharge of care - to ensure that ambulance trusts provide safe and effective care the first time; Call abandonment rate - to ensure ambulance trusts can take 999 calls and that people don't abandon their 999 call before a control room operator has answered; Time to answer calls - measuring how quickly all 999 calls are answered; Time until treatment by an ambulance - dispatched health professional; Category A: eight minutes response time — measuring whether those patients most in need of an emergency ambulance get one quickly.

«Reforming Emergency Care» saw improvements in emergency response times, the deployment of new technology (including satellite navigation systems and better equipment to deal with heart patients) and funded increases in frontline ambulance staff and vehicles.

The mayor laid out plans to spend $ 115 million to boost the minimum wage to $ 15 for tens of thousands of city workers, and $ 5.4 million to expand FDNY ambulance tours in Upper Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx in an effort to boost response times.

Other areas the chime led administration is positively giving uncommon facelift to include; renovation of dilapidated school structures, provision of Ambulances and medical emergency response personnel in Enugu State which is under its Medical Emergency Response Scheme, recruitment of 2000 teachers for secondary schools and an additional 2000 volunteer teachers to fast track its Volunteer Service Scheme, a scheme whereby retired but not tired teachers are engaged based on personal volition in order to increase and complement the inadequate number of teachers teaching in the state's schools, provision of brand new tractors to encourage mechanized system of farming to add vim to the revolution going on in the agricultural sectresponse personnel in Enugu State which is under its Medical Emergency Response Scheme, recruitment of 2000 teachers for secondary schools and an additional 2000 volunteer teachers to fast track its Volunteer Service Scheme, a scheme whereby retired but not tired teachers are engaged based on personal volition in order to increase and complement the inadequate number of teachers teaching in the state's schools, provision of brand new tractors to encourage mechanized system of farming to add vim to the revolution going on in the agricultural sectResponse Scheme, recruitment of 2000 teachers for secondary schools and an additional 2000 volunteer teachers to fast track its Volunteer Service Scheme, a scheme whereby retired but not tired teachers are engaged based on personal volition in order to increase and complement the inadequate number of teachers teaching in the state's schools, provision of brand new tractors to encourage mechanized system of farming to add vim to the revolution going on in the agricultural sector etc..

In a radio interview on Friday, Mr. Bloomberg noted the spreading financial woes of local governments, saying, «Towns and counties across the state are starting to have to make the real choices — fewer cops, fewer firefighters, slower ambulance response, less teachers in front of the classroom.»

Throughout the large - scale operation with 350 victims, 50 first responders, 30 ambulances, several helicopters, and a mobile response control center, the interplay of triage components worked perfectly.

Assuming the constant availability of a school nurse may be particularly chancy for students with health conditions that may require an immediate response at school, such as administering a medication or knowing when to call an ambulance.

In applying the GIS technology to factor ambulance versus medical helicopter response times, the researchers examined more than 10 years of medical helicopter transports in a five county area surrounding Frederick County, Maryland, over 2000 - 2011.

(k) A police officer, a firefighter, or a member of a rescue squad, search and rescue squad, first response team, or ambulance corps who is accompanied by a service dog shall be permitted in any place of public accommodation, and the service dog shall be permitted to stay with its master.

For the purposes of this subsection, «service dog» means a dog owned, used, or in training by any police or fire department, rescue, or first response squad, ambulance corps, or search and rescue organization for the purposes of locating criminals and lost persons, or detecting illegal substances, explosives, cadavers, accelerants, or school or correctional facility contraband.

The first of its kind in the assistance industry, it allows for multiple air ambulance teams to be notified simultaneously of a transport need, resulting in faster, more flexible response and cost containment.

Belize Emergency Response Team (B.E.R.T.) operates two airplanes for those of you within easy reach of an airstrip, (originally Wings of Hope), in addition to the land ambulances.

The professionalism of this operation, orchestrated by the Sheldrick Trust, was so smooth, that any First World emergency response ambulance would have been proud to have been a part of it.

I managed a team of case officers considering the emergency response by South Yorkshire Police, South Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and others involved in the emergency response.

This evidence was critical to the jury being able to answer questions 13 and 14 relating to the emergency responses and the failures of both SYP and South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service (SYMAS).

The first of its kind in the assistance industry, it allows for multiple air ambulance teams to be notified simultaneously of a transport need, resulting in faster, more flexible response and cost containment.

the only exception to these rules are in cases where the under - 18 driver is engaged as an emergency response professional, like an ambulance driver for instance, or is a peace officer, or in the event of a personal emergency.

His comments came as the fallout from the tragic «thunderstorm asthma» event in Melbourne continued, with Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews announcing a $ 500 million investment into ambulance services as part of a comprehensive plan to improve response times.