High Performance EMS
JUNE 5, 2025
Better Reporting With an increase in calls for service and longer hospital delays more commonplace, ambulance crews can reasonably be expected to be more active. In the 1980’s, Jack Stout introduced the idea of Unit Hour Utilization (UHU) as “ the cost of doing business.”
High Performance EMS
MARCH 18, 2021
For any ambulance call, there are two potential segments of travel. The response phase where a unit is enroute to the patient and the secondary transport phase where a patient is delivered to the “most appropriate facility” for definitive care.
High Performance EMS
DECEMBER 27, 2023
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). It is also common for ambulances to be busy longer than an hour in our post-pandemic world.
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