Follow Las Cruces Digest on Facebook to get weekly updates. Our broader community saw 510 dispatch responses for medical reasons by public safety officers for the week ending June 4, 2024.
A Las Cruces Digest Report By: Levi Gwaltney
Sources: Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authority, KTSM 9 News, New Mexico Department of Health, City of Las Cruces
Call 9-1-1
if you believe you are experiencing a
Medical Emergency
Las Cruces — The week ending June 4, 2024 proved to be a busy one for public safety officers in our broader community. 510 of the close to 4,000 responsive calls dispatched were primarily medical in nature (see below). Mesilla Valley Regional Dispatch Authority created more than 7,000 dispatch records for the week; however, Las Cruces Digest presents only responsive actions. These instances are broken down into specific subject areas to make them more accessible to our broader community. This report focuses on medical responses.
This report only presents the numbers on the surface. For each one incident counted, there is the likelihood that multiple agencies responded. These are not just “ambulance” numbers. Each of the following departments or agencies assumed a lead role in at least one medical emergency accounted for in this report (in no particular order):
- Hatch Fire Department
- Las Cruces Fire Department
- Mesilla Fire Department
- Sunland Park Fire Department
- American Medical Responce (Ambulance)
- Doña Ana County Fire Department
- Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Office
- Las Cruces Police Department
- Anthony Police Department
- Sunland Park Police Department
- Mesilla Marshall
The tallies listed are NOT COMPREHENSIVE. Only dispatch calls primarily of a medical nature are counted here. Medical responses secondary to another incident are not represented in the counts. For example, instances where a motor vehicle accident resulted in injury are not included since the injury was the result of another reported response–the motor vehicle accident. Also, multi-agency responses are counted as a single instance.
Daily Dispatch Medical Responses1
Weekly Medical Responses2
Numbers in the News
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- The “Daily Medical Responses” numbers are for medical as the primary reason for the call–ONLY. Many other calls require a medical response, but are not counted here. [For example: Medical responses to motor vehicle accidents resulting in injury are not included in these totals.] ↩︎
- The “Weekly Medical Responses” numbers should not be mistaken for statistics of instances of medical conditions in our broader community. Each number is an unverified count of calls to regional dispatch and indicate instances of what was reported ONLY when public safety officers have been dispatched. This is why the “General Medical” count is so high; there is often no way of classifying a medical condition requiring immediate attention. The list of named conditions responded to should not be used to determine whether a medical emergency warrants attention from a public safety officer. CALL 9-1-1 IMMEDIATELY IF YOU BELIEVE YOU ARE EXPERIENCING A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. ↩︎
