Ambulance-Diversion-Policy

Effective January 1, 2009, ambulance services may honor diversion requests ONLY when a hospital's emergency department's status is "Code Black", which means that it is closed to all patients due to an internal emergency.  Recent "Code Black" occurrences have resulted from fires, chemicals or other environmental contamination, and flooding due to broken water mains.

MA ENA is interested in your thoughts on this decision and how it could potentially impact your practice in your role as an ED nurse or as an EMS worker.  Please email your thoughts to Robin Walsh at rwrn627@aol.com  We will put your comments on this web link, so please be sure to give us your name, place of employment, position .  If you wish to remain anonymous, we will respect that decision.  We will also be putting some of the responses in the next edition of the MA ENA newsletter - please let us know if you do not wish to have your response published in the newsletter.  We are also interested in hearing about what changes your hospital puts into place into response to this action or what changes have already taken place in response to the Diversion and Crowding Crisis.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts