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EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

Services Provided
• Provide Advanced Life Support on Fire Department apparatus for service
delivery.
• Provide COVID-19 testing to city employees to help maintain city
services.
• Provide most current medical training & procedures to serve our citizens.

Accomplishments in FY 2020-2021
• Successfully handled the challenges of COVID-19.
• Designed and ordered new ambulance for Station 5 with UV sanitization.
• Assisted Tarrant County with COVID-19 testing and vaccinations.

FY 2021-2022 Goals & Objectives

1. Improve the quality and accuracy of documentation in EMS reports.
• Expand our Quality Assurance program to perform 100% chart audits.
• Have QA personnel attend Certified Ambulance Documentation Specialist classes.
• Create training classes developed from chart audits to improve documentation.

2. Become a major partner with local entities to work toward a systematic community-wide approach to
improving community health.
• Establish a collaborative relationship with local hospitals to assist with development and
maintenance of essential data collection and analysis.
• Establish a collaborative relationship with local hospitals to develop strategies for illness and
prevention efforts.
• Be more proactive with public education efforts, focusing on prevention on injury and illness.

3. Improve survival rates for out of hospital cardiac arrest patients.
• Foster a culture of action through public awareness and offer public CPR training.
• Encourage businesses to maintain easy-to-locate and clearly marked AEDs, provide CPR and AED
training to their employees, and include cardiac arrest in formal emergency response plans.
• Update data and information using Texas CARES program.

Performance Measures
Actual Actual Budget Budget
Emergency Medical Services 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022
Demand
Calls for EMS Service 5,252 5,422 5,352 5,735
Workload
EMS Mutual Aid Given 89 124 92 140
Patients Seen 4,864 4,793 4,692 4,820
Patients Transported 3,236 3,481 3,320 3,676
Productivity
Average Cost per Citizen $5.82 $6.18 $5.37 $8.67
Effectiveness
Average Transport Time to Hospital 10:22 10:05 10:15 10:05
Average Turn Around Time at Hospital 24m 25s 25m 14s 24m 15s 25m 10s
Ambulance Billing (annual) $1,559,159 $1,564,968 $1,600,000 $1,620,000

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