American Fork EMS

[Mike821]

Does anyone have the frequency of American Fork EMS to Hospital. I have tried all frequencies listed on RR and the Police Call 2005 book.

Mike

 

[Mick]

Howdy! I see that American Fork Hospital is licensed on these frqs. and they may be using them:
WNLZ804
463.00
463.025
463.05
463.075
463.10
463.125
463.15
463.175
EMS units would use frqs. 5 MHz above those frqs.
KVT660
155.28
155.34
467.975
462.975

 

[qlajlu]

They are also on UCAN

American Fork Hospital is on the UCAN trunked system also. You should be able to copy any traffic to the hospital on TGID 16992 on the Utah County trunked system with the CC of 867.6625. That is, of course, if your scanner has trunk tracking capability.

 

[Junior1970]

Personally knowing some members of the AFEMS they usually use a cell phone as a EMS to hospital link so patient info can remain private. The only time I have heard the AF Hospital talkgroup used is once Eagle Mountain EMS used it for a hospital link after an ATV rollover at Five Mile Pass last summer and once I heard AirMed or LifeFlight use it when they were flying in the ER to tranfer a patient to LDS Hospital. I believe Lehi uses a cell phone hospital link as well.

 

[Mike821]

Thanks for the replies. I have tried all the frequencies and still don't here AF Hospital. I can here the page out but not EMS going back to Hospital. I lost Lehi, PG, and AF EMS a few months ago and have never been able to find them. If they have all gone to using cell phones then that is why I haven't found them.

I am using a BC796D and the BCD396T for scanners.

Thanks

Mike

 

[Junior1970]

If i understand your reply correctly the pageout is on the old City 1 channel (154.100) but when AFEMS goes enroute they usually answer dispatch on Utah County North (TG 46112 or 154.860 VHF patch). Lately they have been switching onto Utah County Fire 1 (TG 46240) as does Lehi when they have a call. The PD's have had a difficult time getting airtime because the fire departments (Lehi, AF, Lone Peak, Eagle Mtn, Saratoga Spgs, Cedar Ft) have the North channel tied up thus making PD switch to the Service (TG 42848 or 158.910 VHF patch) channel. Now that all North County agencies are now on UCAN you will probably see more traffic on the county fire talkgroups in the future. The department has been using cell phones to link with the hospital for a couple of years now, long before switching onto UCAN. Pl. Grove fire is still on 154.010 but PD switched to UCAN back in October.

 

[lavy]

MOst all hospitals in UCAN coverage area prefer that the ambulances use the UCAN tgid, in this case, American fork tgid is 16992 or the cell phone. However, not all ambulances use the UCAN System. So for example, if Iron County ambulance brings a patient to american fork for a transfer, they won't have UCAN capability. They would have 2 options, 1. Call on the old fashion HEAR system-all hospitals are still supposed to monitor it. It operates on 155.340 and then the message sender adds a 4 digit tone that identifies the individual hospital. This is not a repeated system and only works within relatively short distances 10 to 20 miles. Scan it like a conventional channel. Option 2 is becoming very popular, use your cell phone for calls to er. this is private, ie more info of sensative nature can be shared like name and details that may be embarrassing. It also is a two way coversation so the nurses can interupt and ask questions without waiting for air time. The ER has what they usually call the red line which is only published to EMS. All of the hospitals are supposed to be able to record these calls for furture use. Airmed and Lifeflight both use cell phones before liftoff, but are not allowed to use cellphones in flight due to both FAA and FCC restrictions therefore they switch to either UCAN tgid's or the HEAR system depending on which the hospital uses. (The small southern and central utah hospital haven't even heard of UCAN.)

 

[Junior1970]

UVRMC in Provo still monitors the HEAR channel you've described being the main trauma hospital here in Utah County. Recently I heard an ambulance from Sanpete County talking to the UVRMC Emergency room using 155.340.

 

[enosjones]

Does anyone have the frequency of American Fork EMS to Hospital. I have tried all frequencies listed on RR and the Police Call 2005 book.

Mike

since the HIPPA law went into effect for more patient privacy all hospital pharmacies mental health and doctors offices dont make the information quite so open where i am at i have only hear the ambulance talk to the hospital maybe twice in the last 2-3 years when they used to talk to the over the radio all the time i'm sure this is statewide if not nationwide. i would keep the frequencies both conventional and trunked programmed in the rare case they used it.

 

[enosjones]

MOst all hospitals in UCAN coverage area prefer that the ambulances use the UCAN tgid, in this case, American fork tgid is 16992 or the cell phone. However, not all ambulances use the UCAN System. So for example, if Iron County ambulance brings a patient to american fork for a transfer, they won't have UCAN capability. They would have 2 options, 1. Call on the old fashion HEAR system-all hospitals are still supposed to monitor it. It operates on 155.340 and then the message sender adds a 4 digit tone that identifies the individual hospital. This is not a repeated system and only works within relatively short distances 10 to 20 miles. Scan it like a conventional channel. Option 2 is becoming very popular, use your cell phone for calls to er. this is private, ie more info of sensative nature can be shared like name and details that may be embarrassing. It also is a two way coversation so the nurses can interupt and ask questions without waiting for air time. The ER has what they usually call the red line which is only published to EMS. All of the hospitals are supposed to be able to record these calls for furture use. Airmed and Lifeflight both use cell phones before liftoff, but are not allowed to use cellphones in flight due to both FAA and FCC restrictions therefore they switch to either UCAN tgid's or the HEAR system depending on which the hospital uses. (The small southern and central utah hospital haven't even heard of UCAN.)

As far as the central and south we havent used ucan as of yet but from the looks of things thats changing here in Price when the life flight or airmed lands here they still talk to salt lake now because there has been an addition to the ucan system covering the Price area and i am told its on ford ridge if this is so Price and Carbon County maybe the next on the ucan system donno when that will happen though. From what I understand ucan is supposed to go statewide so everyone will soon be on it. but im sure not for a while anyway.