Ambulance to Hospital Communication

[mikea7531]

The hospitals and BLS ambulances in this area frequently use the HEAR radio. Somerset Medical, St. Peters, Robert Wood Johnson, Morristown, and JFK all have working HEAR radios.

Most volunteer squads here use HEAR to relay their patient reports to the receiving ED. Even the paid Somerset Medical Center BLS ambulances use HEAR to talk to their own ED even though they have cell phones and county trunk capabilities!

 

[SLWilson]

That's our problem here....

That just means that your area has decided not to utilize the availability of a specific trunk talkgroup for each facility. How many ER's do you have? One or two might not be a problem but in larger areas the 155.34 would be jammed up with calls. After all you can only have one conversation per freq.

You hit the nail on the head....We only have one "Hospital" here in rural Southern Ohio in four surrounding counties.

All trauma cases are flown out (weather permitting) to WV (St. Mary's ER, or Cabell-Huntington ER - They alternate trauma days) or north to Columbus, OH to OSU.

We have two Air medical units supporting our local (county operated) Emergency Medical Service....One out of Huntington, WV the other out of Wellston, OH (each about a 10 minute flight from anywhere in our county)....

When we fly a patient out, the chopper uses VHF Hi to talk to our squuds or FD's. They give their patient report to the hospital(s) they fly to via 800MHz radios....
Just don't wreck or get real sick here!

Steve/Gallia/KB8FAR

 

[SCPD]

155.340 is simplex, so who knows how much you will hear.

 

[Tech792]

For what its worth, the ems here in Middletown don't use HEAR any more from what I was told. They either call it in over the cell phone or don't notify them at all.

Also, I remember reading many years ago (like 20 years ago) that 155.34 was set up as a nationwide AMB-HOSP channel. I'm sure first aid squads, counties, als providers, etc. slowly migrated away from 155.34 as technology changed and other more efficient systems became available in different parts of the country. (repeaters, trunking, etc)

 

[APX8000]

In Orange County, NY all the hospitals have HEAR radios. St. Lukes Cornwall Campus and Arden Hill Hospital are on 155.400 CSQ and all the others are on 155.340 CSQ. All rigs encode a 3 digit DTMF code to open the receiver. And believe it or not, they actually answer you. Now, what they do afterwards is another story.

Funny story...I've been in the ER with a patient when the receiver went off from another service calling. The nurse answered, "St Lukes, go ahead..." and then walked away. The ambulance proceeded to give his full report with no one listening. She walked back a minute later, keyed up and said, "Good copy, St Lukes out." I just shook my head. Later that day I had another call that went to the same hospital. I called in and gave my report over the radio. When I got to the ER, I was greeted with, "what you do have..." to which I replied with a smile, "Well, if you listened to my report that I gave over the radio instead of walking away like you do, then you would know."

Sometimes a little sarcasm goes a long way.

 

[SCPD]

Anytime I have used the HEAR radio, they do answer, listening however who knows. But the hospital never seems any more prepared than had I not given them a report.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother!

 

[ScannerSky]

Does anybody know the frequency for Morristown Memorial HEAR?

 

[dun34]

As previously stated, 155.34.

 

[ScannerSky]

Thank you. This is also known as JEMS 2, right? The reason I am asking is because I don't know what I should program the Alpha Tag as on my Pro-106. Should I program it as JEMS 2 or HEAR? I haven't been hearing a lot of transmission on this freq. Is it commonly used in Morris County, NJ? As always, thank you all for your help!

 

[dun34]

Scannersky,

To paraphrase what everyone has said above, and to hopefully answer your question:

In NJ, JEMS 2 and HEAR are the same. You have to live within close proximity of the hospital to hear anything being that it is a simplex channel. As others have stated, many squads have migrated towards using cell phones to give patient reports. Once the paramedics get involved in a call, it is almost exclusively done by cell phone as it is the same method they get their medical orders. I would say that the HEAR system within Morris County still remains fairly active. If you're not hearing anything, it is probably because you live to far out.

 

[ScannerSky]

Thank you! I live about ten miles away from the hospital, so this is probably why I am not hearing anything on that freq. Either way I am still really happy with my trunking system! The Pro-106 I have along with the Diamond RH77CA antenna is amazing! Thanks for everyone's help! Happy Holidays and Happy Scanning!