Scenario: The rookie on your shift hurt himself doing something too embarrassing to note here. It’s not serious enough of an injury to go to the hospital but you are taking him to FROMS. FROMS isn’t listed along with the hospitals in Elite.
The destination name you should choose is Other Facility – 888. The same applies if you are going to any hospital not listed. Please remember to provide the extra detail in your narrative.
Scenario: You begin an Elite report while transporting and you want to add in your updated times at the hospital automatically. Here’s how:
Thanks to a new upgrade in CAD, response dispatches for PICs on limited access highways (such as I-270 and I-495) are different and more user-friendly. The alt-lane dummy unit is a thing of the past and in its place will be an alternate lane marker that follows the units assigned to the alternate (opposite) assignment, such as A703 (ALT). This will be seen on the CAD and MDCs.
Moving forward, we have two different dispatches for units; you’ll just receive one but which one will determine where you should go. To reiterate: Just go where you’re dispatched (which is the text in red).
Scenario: There’s been a PIC on southbound 270 between 28 and Montrose Road.
The primary unit(s) will see this:
The alternate unit(s) will see this:
Also: 270’s commonplace names have been updated to include express lanes and local lanes (to match highway signage).
Need to contact someone at ECC while you are on an incident? No need to remember any workstations or who’s who with P1 MDC!
Note from the ECC leadership: The My Dispatcher address goes to all at ECC. For our own procedures, we do not want messages targeting individuals, as was the standard in the previous CAD.
Interested in using PremierOne to update your log book? You may use either the MDC or the station P1 desktop — remember, it’s the same software and the only difference is the presence/absence of status buttons at the top.
Run an Incident Recall
Notes:
Question: You’re riding a PE and drop off your paramedic to ride with an ambulance and upgrade a call. With the previous CAD (Altaris CAD), you needed to call ECC and have them log you off so you could log back into MDC as an engine. What is the procedure with the PremierOne (P1) MDC?
Answer: You have the ability to log your unit off and back on as a different unit without needing to log off of CAD (as long as you are not currently dispatched). However, for situational awareness, ECC should still be notified.
Is CAD down? Do you need to dispatch a unit manually?
Need driving directions from your current location to the hospital? PremierOne gives you this option.
Dispatched on a call and you need to find the Premise Hazards?
Look on the left and you’ll see a Prem/Haz button with a number in parentheses. This reflect the number of Prem/Haz notes about the address. Click the button to see the list.
