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Toward a Better Understanding of “Availability”

High Performance EMS

In the 1980’s, Jack Stout introduced the idea of Unit Hour Utilization (UHU) as “ the cost of doing business.” 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.

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Improving EMS Deployment Performance

High Performance EMS

For services that pay a financial penalty for late calls, the savings can be easily measured as in systems that survey the customer satisfaction of their patients.

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

FirstWatch

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.