SAAS Station Codes

[mengcfs]

but if some one is detained we are ment to wait for psyc to get there and take over the job unless they have a medical emergency and need urgent medical aid

the Psych truck (MH cars) are Mental Health Nurses who work closely with ACIS in order to take the workload off of SAAS crews in the Metro Area.(let's face it - most psych patients don't need to lie on a bed to be taken to hospital!!)  ACIS also has a MH nurse in the comms room who will spend time talking to the psych patient on the phone rather than just routinely send an ambulance out and take the patient taken to hosp.

as for the newest addition to the mental health transfer - ATS staff are now providing the "escort" (including flying with the RFDS) because SAPOL simply don't have the staff to send an escort every time a patient has been detained.  Only down side is that this person is not a paramedic - hence cannot sedate the patient if required - a paramedic is still needed in these instances.

And the process is very drawn out and time consuming for country hospitals. Particularly when Police leave the Hospital and the nursing staff have to wait for the team to come down.

[boredmatrix]

I'm not disputing that one little bit!

The biggest problem with Health Care services in this state is that everything has been, or is in the process of being centralised!  Having spent the majority of my life living in Rural SA, but now in metro - I can see the massive indiscrepancies between health care delivery.  Sure - it may be more cost effective to follow the Europe/UK models of centralised services, but they seem to forget that out here in CONVICT LAND (sic) we can live up to 2000km from the nearest major hospital!

Ambo's are doing more and more miles on the open road, and the RFDS at the Adelaide Base don't tend to do much more than ferry people round the state, like an expensive flying taxi!

my rant over....wasn't this thread about SAAS station codes?   :evil:

[Alan (Big Al)]

Didn't know where else to put this comment but..... I saw one of the new ambulances today parked in Goolwa, I personally think they look great, didn't mind the green and the stripes on the back are very visible so overall i think it's an improvement on before. :-)

[CFS_Firey]

Discussions about the new decorations were taking place here:
http://www.safirefighter.com/boards/index.php?topic=1460

[uniden]

Does anyone have a list of which country SAAS stations are paid or vols?

[uniden]

BTW I have figured out that the ones that do a net call are paid staffers.

[Jimmy_91]

Does anyone have a list of which country SAAS stations are paid or vols?

Uniden, have a look at this link http://www.saambulance.com.au/publicweb/pdf/SAAS Country Stations.pdf from the SA Ambulance site.  :-)

[uniden]

Thanks for that. I obviously didnt look hard enough at the SAAS site.