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EMS report: new state rules for hospital handoffs take effect; Geary Stabilization Unit adds short-stay beds
Summary
Department officials told commissioners that state regulations to reduce ambulance offload delays took effect July 1 and that a new Geary Stabilization Unit at 822 Geary will add 16 beds for short stays; EMS data for June showed continued APOD delays and bystander CPR initiatives.
Assistant Deputy Chief Tony Malloy and section chief Michael Mason delivered the EMS and community paramedicine reports on July 9.
Malloy said statewide regulations that took effect July 1 require hospitals to report and develop plans to reduce ambulance patient-offload time (APOT) delays; the rules implement steps from state legislation and will require hospitals to submit remedies if their 90th-percentile offload times exceed 30 minutes. Malloy said the department recorded hospital offload delays in June with some hospitals reporting a…
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