Austin-In a document obtained by KXAN, the head of the Austin-Trainis Province, EMS Robert Lucritiz, said the agency continues “innovation and challenge in the current situation to publish EMS” but its current method of operations is “not sustainable.”
“The administration has increasingly dependent on the use of additional work, payment when calling, and contact the employees to work on their vacation days. With the section approaching full employment, this model is not sustainable,” he wrote.
Luckritz explained in the document that the temporary program to reduce the pressure on the emergency service will be tried.
“This experimental approach protects the basic work of our non -working employees such as an Academy training, continuous education, and responding to mental health while ensuring the support of 911 of the operations adequately to ensure that ATCEMS is sent the appropriate supplier, to the appropriate patient, at the right time while working in the budget,” he wrote.
Under the “Advanced Life Support Teams” program, ATCEMS will use more “one -paramedical response vehicles” instead of ambulances in most calls. Individual respondents are faster than an ambulance, but they cannot transport patients.
These units “will respond to 911 reports of low -density injuries and high priority calls if they are already close. This will prevent” unnecessary ambulance “, according to the document.
“[ATCEMS] I realized that ambulances are not the most appropriate for many of the 911 calls they receive, “Luckritz Books.” With the growth of the administration, employees believe that these types of units, along with other specialized units, will be a better solution than advanced ambulances to support life. “
If running the test is a success, ATCEMS will evaluate the possibility of its adoption permanently.
According to the document, ATCEMS has opened seven new stations in the past six years and made another clock station. It also reduced its open positions to 88 vacancies as of April.