An Emergency Department Paramedic Staffing Model Significantly Improves EMS Transport Unit Offload Time - A Novel Approach to an ED Crowding Challenge

Salvatore Silvestri¹, Joanne Sun^1,2, Scott Gutovitz^1,3, George Ralls¹ and Linda Papa¹

¹Orlando Regional Medical Center, Department of Emergency Medicine, Orlando, Florida (also old omi_affiliation for Sun and Gutovitz), USA

²Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Francis Memorial Hospital, San Francisco, California (new omi_affiliation for Sun), USA

³Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Luke's Emergency Care Group, Jacksonville, Florida (new omi_affiliation for Gutovitz), USA