Performance & Insights
2024-2025 Sacramento County Emergency Medical Services Agency
The Sacramento County EMS Annual Report highlights major improvements in emergency care, including faster ambulance offload times, new programs like Triage to Alternate Destination, and expanded lifesaving treatments such as prehospital blood transfusions. It also shows how EMS works with hospitals and partners to provide high-quality, patient-centered care and continuously improve the system using data and innovation.
Reports, Plans, and Data
Reports provide information on system performance, operations, and outcomes. These documents support transparency and ongoing improvement.
- System reports and evaluations
- Performance summaries
- Data reports and findings
- Publications related to emergency medical services
Reports help inform decision-making and provide insight into how the system is functioning.
Ambulance Patient Offload Time (APOT) Reports
Ambulance Patient Offload Time (APOT) is the time from when an ambulance gets to the hospital to when hospital staff take over care of the patient. It shows how long crews have to wait before they can return to help the next emergency.
- Ambulance Patient Offload Times (APOT) per Month for Sacramento County
- Ambulance Patient Offload Times (APOT per Month by Hospital
- Ambulance Patient Offload Times (APOT) Previous Calendar Week Per Hospital
- APOT 2 - Patient Counts by Offload Time Range per Hospital for Previous Calendar Week
- APOT 2 - Patient Counts by Offload Time Range per Hospital for Two (2) Calendar Weeks Prior
EMS Agency Quality Improvement Reports
The Sacramento County EMS Quality Improvement Plan (QIP) uses patient care data to improve care, make it safer, and speed it up. It focuses on improving advanced care services, lowering ambulance wait times at hospitals, and following state rules for heart attack and stroke care.
Multi-Casualty Incident Plan
STEMI Program Plan and Updates