EMS System Review - State of New Jersey

State of New Jersey, DHSS, OEMSConsulting Services: EMS System ReviewTable 5: Travel Times for Career and Volunteer ProvidersCareerVolunteer1 stArrivingOverall1 stArrivingOverallResponse Count * 21,176 46,088 2,478 4,585Mean 5:56 6:33 5:19 5:3490th Percentile 10:00 11:03 9:30 10:04* Response count includes records with valid time stamps only.Travel times were also examined by incident type, and the results are shown in Table 6.BLS companies had shorter travel times than ALS and Critical Care providers, likely because ofthe larger number of BLS providers, allowing for smaller first due areas.Table 6: Travel Times for BLS, ALS, and Critical Care ResourcesBLS ALS Critical CareResponse Count * 31,113 17,025 2,531Mean 5:50 7:34 6:3890th Percentile 9:45 12:52 11:16* Response count includes records with valid time stamps only.Total Response – “Total response time” includes both turnout and travel. It beginswhen the unit is assigned to an incident and ends when that unit arrives on scene. Normally, totalresponse time would include the call processing and dispatch time segments as well (extendingfrom initiation of the 911 call to on scene arrival), but call processing and dispatch could not becalculated from the available data.Table 7 shows the total response times for career and volunteer agencies. Mean responsetimes for each group are very similar, while volunteer response times increase at a greater rate atthe higher percentiles.TriData, a Division of 94September 2007System Planning Corporation