What's your call volume?

[gillysaurus]

Just wondering what the call volumes are like around the US

For the ambulance service I intern with, they respond to 12,000-13,000 a year. They serve a whole county, and it's a huge county at that!

I rode along with a tiny fire department a few times, and they only get around 600 calls a year. It was mellow enough to make cupcakes one night.

I live in Northeast Colorado, btw.

 

[mikie]

Departmant I was on was averaging 470-500

 

[KEVD18]

100 thousand calls a year, give or take

 

[reaper]

40-50k a year

 

[ffemt8978]

300-400 per year, including fires.

 

[Grady_emt]

106,000 last year, on pace for 112,000 this year. 142 sq miles, night-time tax paying population of 519,145 which increases to 2million or so during the day.

 

[MedicPrincess]

Primary Job- its our first year of service, but we are up to 10,000. We have been averaging 1200 calls for service with 1000 transports per month.


Second Job- 50,000 or more.

 

[MMiz]

Back in Michigan our call volume was right around 18,000 a year.

 

[karaya]

My main host EMS runs about 28,000 per year give or take. County wide operation of a population of 350,000 in a 620 square mile area. 15 EMS bases / stations scattered through out the county with about 22 trucks on the road. All full time paid, all paramedic.

 

[NJN]

6,500 calls for about 50,000 people

 

[medicdan]

At my private service, with three bases, and I think about 70 ambulances, 122,000 a year, or ~10,000 a month, consisting of discharges, dialysis, inter-facility, mutual aid emergencies, NH emergencies, organ runs, MedFlight transfers, etc.

 

[johnrsemt]

private service I used to work for was 42,000 last year, fire dept was about 12-13,000.
where I work now did about 130 runs last year (yes 130); with 6 medics, 4 BLS crew members. 40 min to a small hospital, 70 min to Level 1 trauma centers. 25-30 min to a helicopter. coverage area about 80miles, by 60 miles. Most of which is an army base (where we cover and work), but we cover part of the county outside the base also. just alot of desert, not many people.

 

[K9kazoo]

~90,000 with 21 peak load Medic units providing BLS & ALS to roughly 700,000 citizens.

B.

 

[Jon]

full-time job:

2200 between two satations: 1 full-time ALS ambulance, 1 ALS fly car and 2 BLS rigs (1 staffed 24x7 and one by vollies when needed).

Vollie squad:
5000 911, and about 200 routine transports. We have 2 or 3 crews on station 24x7. Vollies cover 3rd, 4th, and 5th trucks as needed, and vollies also staff 6pm-6am.

 

[Hastings]

Personal average of 9 calls a day, 4 on the low end, 13 on the high end (in a daily 12 hour shift).

 

[MJordan2121]

40,000-50,000 a year

 

[Lisa]

Wow!!!

We have one 24 hr truck for the whole county! Average around 2000 a yr. Some days we run1 some days 8! I ran 9 calls one time and thought I was going to fall out!! LOL
Kudos to those of you that run so many!!

 

[zacdav89]

well i feel strange posting this and no way able to be put in to this contest, the service i work for we are in rual Colorado and our county is 1400 sq miles, we run about 150 calls a year. mostly mva's. small amount but still fun to do.

 

[emt19723]

well...we cover a large area of a pretty busy township, and parts of smaller, less busy townships, and with at least 2 rigs in serviceat all times, we average about 4-5000 calls a year. that doesnt include stand-bys.

 

[MRE]

Somewhere in the neighborhood of 60 calls per year. Thats what you get in a town of 800 where people are too stubborn to call for help.