Province to divert non-urgent EMS calls to Health Link to free up ambulances

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Province to divert non-urgent EMS calls to Health Link to free up ambulances ableg abpoli

During a two-week trial, EMS dispatchers have redirected approximately 1,000 low-acuity calls from ambulance responses to 811 for assistance, said Health Minister Jason Copping. With the new initiative, an estimated 40,000 calls a year will be passed to Health Link — keeping more ambulances free for urgent incidents.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

Williams’ injuries were initially labelled as serious but non-life-threatening, which the review found did impact EMS response time. Betty Ann Williams, 86, died after she was attacked by three dogs in a northwest Calgary alley on June 5, 2022.“This challenge wasn’t created overnight and it’s going to take us time to get there,” said Copping. “It’ll be a lot of little changes across our entire system that are going to fix it, and quite frankly, more are coming.”

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