title: New ambulance policy slashes diversion hours.
abstract: Focus on practitioners' needs to develop a diversion plan that makes sense and will be effective. Directing patients to the right facility will eliminate duplication of efforts on histories and tests. Limit the amount of time a hospital's ED can be on diversion before it must again accept ambulance patients. Tracking the performance of EDs creates pressure to adhere to requirements of program.
mesh_terms: D000552:Ambulances; D002140:California; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016134:Organizational Policy; D016730:Program Development; D014187:Transportation of Patients / Q000458:organization & administration*