Rescue St. Gallen
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| founding | 2014 |
| Seat | Gossau SG |
| Number of employees | 160 |
| Website | www.rettung-sg.ch |
As an organization of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital and the Rheintal Werdenberg Sarganserland and Fürstenland Toggenburg hospital regions, St. Gallen Rescue is the second largest rescue organization in Switzerland.
Every year the St. Gallen Rescue carries out 17,000 primary missions , 2,500 emergency doctor assignments and around 9,000 relocation transports. It covers a supply area of 1780km2, which corresponds to a large part of the canton of St. Gallen with the exception of the Linth hospital region, which has been covered by the supra-cantonal Regio 144 AG since April 2007 .
history
In 2014, the companies Kantonsspital St. Gallen and Spitalregion Fürstenland Toggenburg founded the joint organization Rescue St. Gallen for their rescue services. As planned from the outset, the rescue service of the Rheintal-Werdenberg-Sarganserland hospital region was integrated in the following year. The trigger was the change in the cantonal service mandate to the hospital regions, instead of the 80% new requirement of the IVR that 90% of the urgent missions had to be reached within 15 minutes. The merger made it possible to simplify cooperation and move bases as required. In 2018, the St. Gallen rescue service achieved a 90% relief deadline in all regions.
The emergency call center of the canton of St. Gallen by Santiago Calatrava serves as an emergency call center, which was put into operation as a striking building on the southeastern edge of the monastery district in May 1999 after a 10-year planning and construction phase. The emergency call center accepts calls from the three Swiss cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell and Canton Glarus .
Cooperations
Security association Wil, FWZSSG
Since 2005, a driver from the security association has been available for the emergency doctor service (until 2014 anesthesia care ) in the Wil region. The St. Gallen Rescue provides the vehicle and equipment. Since November 2018, the emergency doctor's vehicle in St. Gallen has been driven according to the same model by members of the St. Gallen Fire Brigade (FWZSSG). On site, the fire fighters support the rescue team in an assisting role.
Private emergency services
In Upper Toggenburg, there had been close collaboration with the Obertoggenburg Rescue Service AG, which had supplied the area for more than 50 years and operated an ambulance and a transfer vehicle. VGS medical AG has been operating the Rheineck base independently as a cooperation partner since 2015, and the Upper Toggenburg base since 2020.
Seniors Emergency Call Sawires AG
Since 2015 there has been a cooperation with Senioren Notruf Sawires AG. This operates its own emergency call center, where the customers' requests for help arrive. In the St. Gallen rescue area, its teams form the service team.
Ridge responder
Most fire brigades in the canton of St. Gallen have a Firstresponder group. You take over the extended first aid until the rescue arrives. These groups consist of firefighters and members of the Samaritan associations. (Most of which are integrated into the fire brigade). Most of the time they drive to the emergency center in a fire service vehicle. The emergency vehicles are equipped with the appropriate equipment such as a defibrillator and laryngeal tubes for airway management . The St.Gallen Rescue trains the groups. The ridge responders carry out three to four practical exercises per year under the direction of the St. Gallen rescue service. In addition, there are basic and advanced training courses that are carried out by the St.Gallen Rescue External Training Department.
Finances
Similar to the hospital regions, the St. Gallen rescue service must be self-supporting. Conversely, this means that the costs of the provision service (and a large part of the disaster preparedness) are passed on to the patients, which has led to criticism from the price watchdog . Since then, the topic has not received further attention from the public. Radio FM 1 described the St. Gallen rescue service as “The most expensive 'taxi' in Switzerland”. The SRF program “Kassensturz” reported on “2500 francs for 62 kilometers - terrible prices for an ambulance trip”. Günter Bildstein from the St. Gallen Rescue explained that, in contrast to other cantons, the St. Gallen Rescue did not receive any subsidies. Of course you have to be surprised at the cost. For comparison: a rescue helicopter operation costs between 3000 and 5000 francs.
Sim911
The “Sim911” simulation model from the St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences forms the basis for making decisions about merging the former rescue services and relocating locations . The model uses historical data from past missions over several years. These include place and time of deployment, disposition strategy, bases, vehicles and duty times. On this basis, the change can then be simulated that makes the opening / moving / closing of a base or the change in duty times on the deployment figures. This allows risk-free statements to be made about the quality of planned measures.
The practical implementation of the simulated measures showed measurable improvements for several Swiss rescue services. In this way, the deadlines for assistance could be increased without additional resources and corresponding additional costs, simply by redistributing resources. The St. Gallen University of Applied Sciences has published an overview poster on the subject.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Professional team. Rescue St. Gallen, accessed on May 31, 2020 .
- ↑ Emergency services in Switzerland. (PDF) In: Obsan Bulletin 1/2017. Swiss Health Observatory, 2017, accessed on May 30, 2020 (The St. Gallen rescue service is not explicitly mentioned, but this can be deduced from the graphic with the deployment figures.).
- ↑ a b Figures for the rescue of St. Gallen. (PDF) Rescue St. Gallen, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Written answer from the government of February 9, 2010 )
- ↑ Organization. Rescue St. Gallen, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Written answer from the government of January 27, 2015 )
- ↑ Watchful eye at St. Gallen monastery. In: Hochparterre : magazine for architecture and design. Issue 8, Volume 12/1999.
- ^ Christiana Sutter: 1300 missions, 400 emergencies. Tagblatt, July 8, 2014, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Cooperations. Rescue St.Gallen, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Cooperation between Senioren Notruf Sawires AG and the St. Gallen rescue service. Rescue St. Gallen, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Sabine Camedda: First responders are organized to be on site quickly - this helps the patient and facilitates the work of the rescue service. Tagblatt, December 27, 2019, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Simone Iseli: Total Swiss tariff comparison 2014 in the field of ground rescue. Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research, December 2014, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Fabienne Engbers: The most expensive «taxi» in Switzerland. FM1 Today, February 28, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Marianne Kägi: 2500 francs for 62 kilometers - terrible prices for an ambulance trip. SRF, February 27, 2018, accessed May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Jürg Krebs: Rega patronage is not insurance - now the parents pay the costs for the dead son. Aargauer Zeitung, July 18, 2018, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Emergency transport: who bears the costs for Rega or the ambulance? AXA, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ^ Rescue St.Gallen - 2015. University of Applied Science St. Gallen, accessed on May 30, 2020 .
- ↑ Improvement of response times in the Swiss rescue service using the sim911 simulation model. University of Applied Science St. Gallen, accessed on May 30, 2020 .