RMCC Responsibilities

Daily/Routine Responsibilities

1. Coordinates radio communications between ambulances and receiving hospitals*
2. Coordinates emergency medical consultation services for all hospitals and ambulance services in the region**
3. Conducts routine communications checks and system tests with all other system participants
4. Participates in public health disease surveillance programs
5. Monitors status of hospitals throughout the region.

Disaster/MCI Responsibilities

1. Receives scene reports and staging area information from the Incident Commander or local dispatch center; coordinates ambulance response within the region
2. Notifies hospitals in accordance with anticipated system demands
3. Allocates patients among the hospitals
4. Monitors hospital status
5. Identifies hospital and ambulance service needs; communicates this information to TEMA
6. Maintains direct communication with other RMCCs
7. Performs these functions in support of local, regional and state exercises and drills.

*  This function is necessary to prevent confliction of radio transmissions by several ambulances attempting to talk to one or more hospitals at the same time.

**  This is a service provided to Paramedics and hospitals where consultation for critical patients is requested.  It does not usurp or replace local hospital medical control of ambulances.