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SFFD EMS reports improved ambulance turnover but plans to fold street overdose response into expanded neighborhood crisis teams
Summary
Deputy Chief Simon Pang told the Fire Commission that ambulance offload times are improving but remain above the statewide benchmark, and that the department will reassign street overdose resources into larger neighborhood street crisis teams starting July 1.
Deputy Chief Simon Pang told the San Francisco Fire Commission on May 14 that ambulance-patient-offload-time (APOT) delays have improved but remained above the statewide benchmark, and that the department will reorganize its street-overdose response units into a broader neighborhood street crisis structure this summer.
Pang reported that total ambulance dispatches in April were 11,364 citywide (including private ambulance companies) and that San Francisco Fire Department ambulances were dispatched to 7,912 calls. He said the department'9s average APOT delay at hospitals in April was 39.6 minutes, compared with a statewide benchmark of 30 minutes; he estimated that delay…
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