Sacramento Fire Department has new way of responding to 911 calls
People calling 911 for medical help in Sacramento may be getting a different kind of response.
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People calling 911 for medical help in Sacramento may be getting a different kind of response.
In September, Sacramento County says it took 56 minutes for patients to be transferred from an ambulance to a bed in emergency departments at hospitals
Ambulance Patient Offload Time is the time it takes for a patient to be transferred from an ambulance to a bed. A new state law would require Sacramento County to cut its current wait times in half by the end of next year.
There's growing concern over how long patients wait to be seen in Sacramento-area hospital emergency rooms. Sacramento County has some of the lengthiest emergency room wait times nationwide.
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