Q&A
Discussion on serious medical injuries and lack of data on emergency contact notifications
1:39:32
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Council Member Restler questions CHS representatives about the number of individuals with serious medical injuries and the frequency of emergency contact notifications. CHS reveals a lack of comprehensive data on these notifications.
- Approximately 1,400-1,500 individuals transferred to CHS care with serious medical injuries in the past year
- CHS unable to provide data on emergency contact notifications for these cases
- Council Member expresses concern over the lack of available data
Lincoln Restler
1:39:32
So I'll direct my questions to Doctor.
1:39:34
Subeddy, if you don't mind.
1:39:37
In the past year, approximately how many individuals have been transferred into CHS care with a serious medical injury?
Bipin Subedi
1:39:43
I think we can look that up, but I think it's about 1400.
Lincoln Restler
1:39:47
1400?
1:39:48
223, I believe.
1:39:49
Right.
1:39:49
My my numbers were approximately 1500, but I'll trust you.
1:39:53
In how many of those cases did you notify the emergency contacts for the individuals within 1 hour, 24 hours.
Bipin Subedi
1:40:00
So I don't have that information on me.
1:40:02
I think it's important to clarify that the serious injury label encompasses a range of clinical situations the majority of serious injuries involve lacerations or fractures.
1:40:14
So including that number, it could be individuals who had a laceration required like a suture or any kind of bondage or someone who may broke like a phthalinks.
1:40:23
So In those situations, individuals, we expect would be, you know, we've engaged individual in discussion about their treatment.
1:40:30
And if a patient wants us to contact their family member, we would.
1:40:32
We don't have that data tracked.
Lincoln Restler
1:40:35
So we don't know how many times somebody has suffered a serious very devastating injury and whether CHS contacted the emergency contact or not.
1:40:45
We have no insight whatsoever.
Bipin Subedi
1:40:47
Well, again, and by the border correction, which is the data we use that you're referring to publicly.
1:40:54
And when you're talking about a devastating serious injury, that is an an injury situation that's generally at a higher level, which involves an individual being incapacitated.
Lincoln Restler
1:41:02
Do you have data for when we do not?
1:41:04
Okay.
1:41:05
You the answer to my question was, no, we don't have the data.
Jeanette Merrill
1:41:07
We've seen it on hospitalization, if that's what you're inquiring about.
Kennedy Felder
1:41:10
So Alright.
Lincoln Restler
1:41:11
Let's go with the data on hospitalizations.
