What Med-Radio does your Hospital use?

[SCPD]

I'm wondering what other hospitals around the US use for their med radio!

We just moved from analog to digital (p25) on our med channels. We used to have a base analog radio for comms with incoming units but now they've taken the analog radio out and they've given us a Motorola APX4000. Has anyone else ever heard of hospitals using portable radios for this? The other other difference I can tell between the two is that the audio quality is LEAPS AND BOUNDS from analog and the radio beeps when you press the talk button. The analog radio did not. Pretty nice unit though!

 

[N4DES]

All of the hospitals in Palm Beach County (FL) use trunking 800 as their primary EMS communications system with the County owning and maintaining the system. I can't say specificially what model radio hospital by hospital, but we are analog SmartZone for 95% of the communications. As a State required secondary we used the 460 UHF band, again with different hospitals using different makes/models radios.

 

[evfd1625]

Re

Here in Indiana we have some regional hospital dispatch/ops channels on the 800 mhz Smartzone SAFE-T System, and we have the UHF Med channels 1-7, and the IHERN, which is 155.340.

 

[n2hbx]

Here in Orange County, FL, each hospital is assigned an individual talkgroup on the county 800 system. The EDs are equipped with XTL5000 Consolettes remote controlled by MC3000 digital remotes. They also have access to the Statewide UHF Interop MED-8 channel. These are Midland equipment with IDA tone remotes. Some of the EDs have also purchased XTS2500 portables to augment the base radios.

Larry