[Scan-DC] After lightning fundraising effort, EMeRG looks to answer 911 calls

[David Lloyd]

It looks like the person who wrote the article didn't really understand how 911  dispatching works--or couldn't put it succinctly into what it means for the campus.  It sounds like GW will basically be creating a 911 center. A little digging provided this link, http://www.gwemerg.com/#!donations.  

From the website:

	" iMobile is a computer-based system that DCFEMS uses for mobile dispatch and would allow EMeRG to be fully integrated into 	
          DC's 9-1-1 dispatch system. EMeRG would be the first due to ANY and ALL calls on our campus, even if a student calls 9-1-1 
	  rather than the university emergency number. "

It sounds like previously the students had the option to call the GW EMS directly (from a 10-digit phone number) or dial through 911.  The 911 would send the call it to the city and the city would relay it back.  Now, it sounds like they will handle all the 911 calls from campus to as an 'access point' of sorts to emergency medical services.  The new system would allow them to communicate with DCFD to pool resources on ALS and fire calls.  It's not unclear who is actually dispatching the incidents that would involve ALS, since GW is only BLS.  I would imagine sort of a weird permutation of having an actual jurisdiction & acting as mutual aid between the two "jurisdictions".

I'm just guessing, maybe someone has some actual info on the subject?

David 




On Oct 19, 2013, at 2:23 AM, Alan Henney wrote:

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> I'm unclear what they are trying to say in this article from the current GW Hatchet.
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> But I'm guessing that the university's BLS ambulance now has (or is getting) an iMobile computer on the District's CAD system?  Anything else?  They already run on BLS calls but will DC OUC dispatch them?  I assume so?
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