Health Council member hospitals, area fire departments, and EMS services have collaborated to assure that emergency patients in the Tristate are transported to a medical facility that is staffed, equipped, and prepared to meet those patients’ needs as quickly as possible. (View Hospital Status Task Force for details.) This collaboration includes continuously improving communications between hospitals and Emergency Medical Service (EMS) units so that emergency personnel always know which hospitals are “at or over capacity” and which are operating normally. (For more information, view the Hospital Status Reporting Guidelines.)
A hospital is On Diversion when there are not enough beds or staff in the emergency department or in the hospital itself to adequately care for patients. When a hospital must go On Diversion, it notifies EMS units so that they can consider transporting patients to other hospitals that are not On Diversion. (For more information for patients and families about how hospital diversions might affect them, view the Diversion Brochure for Patients.)
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