Detroit Med-9

[macari77]

Does anyone know the frequency for calling Detroit EMS Dispatch (DET MED-9) so they can patch you through to the DEMCA hospitals? I am not sure if this is even used anymore, but I heard that some other agencies in Eastern Wayne County use or have used this to call in reports.

any help would be appreciated
Thanks

 

[w8jjr]

Does anyone know the frequency for calling Detroit EMS Dispatch (DET MED-9) so they can patch you through to the DEMCA hospitals? I am not sure if this is even used anymore, but I heard that some other agencies in Eastern Wayne County use or have used this to call in reports.

any help would be appreciated
Thanks

We use to use it to call OakCom and get a Med Channel 1-8 assigned for the run.
I havent listen to it in a couple years since most have a 800 mHz backbone now.
Beleive its the backup now, maybe someone is dispatching on it?


Hospital Ambulance
Med-1 463.000 468.000
Med-2 463.025 468.025
Med-3 463.050 468.050 Med-1 thru Med-8 are
Med-4 463.075 468.075 assigned as a block and
Med-5 463.100 468.100 any channel may be used.
Med-6 463.125 468.125
Med-7 463.150 468.150
Med-8 463.175 468.175
Med-9 462.950 467.950 Med-9 and Med-10 may be
Med-10 462.975 467.975 used for dispatch.

 

[billforbush]

I'm not certain but I think DEMCA may have abandoned their UHF system in favor of MPSCS. Each hospital is still required to have HEAR (155.340 MHz). Additionally, the HEAR base at Henry Ford main is connected to HEMS, allowing patches to Sinai-Grace, Detroit Receiving or any other HEMS member facility. You should ask your supervisor what method is authorized for your service. Cell phone calls direct to ERs are definitely not an authorized method. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Bill

 

[SCPD]

Fixing the patch

I'm not certain but I think DEMCA may have abandoned their UHF system in favor of MPSCS. Each hospital is still required to have HEAR (155.340 MHz). Additionally, the HEAR base at Henry Ford main is connected to HEMS, allowing patches to Sinai-Grace, Detroit Receiving or any other HEMS member facility. You should ask your supervisor what method is authorized for your service. Cell phone calls direct to ERs are definitely not an authorized method. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Bill

Bill:

Looks like you may have something to do with HEMS. What's with the patch to the Downriver system? It's been screwed up since I got a digital scanner three years ago. HEMS can't hear the rigs. The rigs and the hospitals can't hear each other. Seems like the HEMS to hospital link works good, though.

Is it just Downriver's patch, or are other patches screwed up also ? If I had any say, it's time to try a new vendor, whoever takes care of it currently has not been able to get it right for too long now. There's plenty of radio vendors in SE Michigan. No municipality having long term radio issues should think they are "married" to the same radio shop.

Your thoughts?

 

[macari77]

I'm not certain but I think DEMCA may have abandoned their UHF system in favor of MPSCS. Each hospital is still required to have HEAR (155.340 MHz). Additionally, the HEAR base at Henry Ford main is connected to HEMS, allowing patches to Sinai-Grace, Detroit Receiving or any other HEMS member facility. You should ask your supervisor what method is authorized for your service. Cell phone calls direct to ERs are definitely not an authorized method. Let me know if you need further assistance.

Bill

Bill,
Thanks, that’s what I was afraid of. My truck recently got the VHF HEAR system updated and we have HEMS 1, and 2 along with a channel for each individual hospital (supposedly HEAR frequency with PL tone for that hospital). We were told to call the hospital on its respected channel by calling out the name of the Hospital ourselves (ex. Henry Ford Main, Henry Ford Main this is A696 with priority...). When I tried that the HEMS operator answered and patched me through. The connection was not very good though. I tried another time on the HEMS 1, and it worked almost perfect, but the next day it didn’t work so well at all.
Any advice on the best way to contact the hospitals would be very much appreciated. I just want a good solid communication line to the hospital. We do have a UHF radio with HEMS Med channels 9, 3, and 4, however I don’t think they have the PL tones programmed. What would be better to call on Western Wayne or Downriver? Or will that not work at all in Detroit?

PS. At one point we were told that Henry Ford along with other DEMCA hospitals are requesting us not to call on HEMS because they can not hear us. I have a feeling that it is our fault not HEMS’s though.

Sorry for the ranting, just want this figured out.
Thanks

 

[w8jjr]

Do you guys not have a SOP for communications. Should have if not

 

[macari77]

Do you guys not have a SOP for communications. Should have if not

In a radio failure we can call HEMS on cell phone or relay through Dispatch. But both are discouraged.