Ensihoitaja
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Does that work better in your area than in the Denver area? At the start of our current divert crisis, we were calling zone master hospitals and nobody on the hospital end (other than Denver Health) had any idea what we were talking about. We recently started a protocol where if more than 4 midtown hospitals are on divert our dispatch assigns destinations. It's worked infinitely better.We do not subscribe to the “if everyone is on divert then no one is on divert.” The system appoints a controller hospital when everyone is on divert to distribute patients in real time based on fractional capacity, staffing, and proximity to the call location. The crew calls the controller and they get an assignment. The patient can override this I suppose but I’m yet to have anyone insist on being taken to a full facility. non-voluntary psych and intoxicated patients are not afforded a choice at all.