APOT | EMSA

Ambulance Patient Offload Time (APOT)

The EMS Authority was mandated (Health and Safety Code 1797.120) to develop a statewide methodology for calculating and reporting ambulance patient offload times by a LEMSA. This statewide, standard methodology was based on input received from stakeholders, including but not limited to: hospitals, LEMSAs, public and private EMS providers.

Documents

Toolkit to Reduce Ambulance Patient Offload Delays in the Emergency Department (pdf)
Standardized Methods for Data Collection and Reporting (pdf)
APOT-1 Specifications (pdf)
APOT-2 Specifications (pdf)
Memo – APOT Reporting (7/19/2019) (pdf)

Data Collection and Reporting

APOT-1 and APOT-2 Reporting Spreadsheet (xlsx)
Ambulance Patient Offload Delays Report to the Commission on EMS – December 2021 (pdf)
Ambulance Patient Offload Delays Report to the Commission on EMS – September 2021 (pdf)
Ambulance Patient Offload Delays Report to Legislature – December 2020 (pdf)