Hello, i'm looking for information/white papers on emergency response
ambulances. In a nutshell, the question is this:
"How much redundancy should you have in your ambulances and emergency
response vehicles to provide coverage in your geographic area/city?
Are there any industry yardsticks, indices, benchmarks or metrics that
can be used?"
What i'm looking for is say if you have 18 ambulances covering off a
geographic area, how many extra vehicles should you carry as per
industry standards to provide redundancy in your operations, so that
your not faced with a situation where there are not enough vehicles
available. Its reasonable to assume that all vehicles are roadworthy
and of good service and do not require anything beyond the usual
maintenance procedures. I know the answer may be predicated by the
geography, population base and such other factors, however at this
time i'm just looking for some benchmarking information, not a very
detailed analysis.
Any literature or studies done by cities or towns on transportation
models, which indicate the extent of redundancies that should be
developed for a transportation model for amublances, emergency
vehicles, police cruisers etc. would be useful.
p.s i need the answer to this question fairly quickly, i.e by end of
week 29th april, 2005. |
Clarification of Question by
tears_in_heaven-ga
on
03 May 2005 08:16 PDT
Hi Wonko
Just looked at the info you sent me, it doesn't really answer my
question. Basically i'm looking for some standards....e.g rule of
thumb, in the Emergency Services you need a 10% (for every 100
ambulances there should be 10 in reserve) redundancy factor or
something to that effect.
Let me extrapoloate the question to any kind of mechanized fleet
services. If you can find anything on benchmarks in the airline
industry (i.e how many aircraft should be kept as reserve or redundant
for your total fleet), transportation industry etc. it would still be
useful.
I hope someone can help, for an answer that satisfies my needs, i'm
going to give a 30 dollar bonus. But i need the info ASAP.
Thanks
Eric Clapton.
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Request for Question Clarification by
pafalafa-ga
on
03 May 2005 08:56 PDT
This source from a small community indicates a rule of thumb of one
ambulance for each 10,000 people:
http://www.sfcad.org/proposition/faq.html
The general accepted guideline for ambulance services is to have one
ambulance per 10,000 residents
However, this newspaper article certainly shows that not every
community -- perhaps moreso in big cities than smaller communitiies --
meets this standard:
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/06/24/editorial_ed1v.html
As the Enquirer revealed, Columbus has one ambulance for every 20,900
residents; Lexington has one ambulance for every 28,945 residents;
Dayton has one ambulance for every 23,739 residence....Here in
Cincinnati, there is but one ambulance for every 31,128 residents, a
total of 10 ambulances.
Not quite a "redundancy" figure, but still, a useful yardstick.
Does that sort of statistic help at all...?
Let me know.
pafalafa-ga
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