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Boynton Beach Communications Upgrades Service
Boynton Beach, Florida – Boynton Beach Communications is singing the many praises of PowerPhone’s innovative Total Response solution since implementing it in January of 2019. Their goal was to find a more supportive solution for their staff to handle Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) calls. “PowerPhone’s Total Response solution is more user-friendly than other vendors’ and is significantly more adaptable which gives our dispatchers the freedom to really focus on helping a caller in distress,” says […]
Read More...Trumbull County 911 Exceeds Ohio’s EMD Mandate
Trumbull County 911’s (Ohio) new public safety call-handling solution, Total Response, incorporates emergency call-handling protocols into all calls for service. Realizing that approximately 70% of all 911 calls are not medically related, Trumbull County 911 wanted to have a solution that not only helped them meet the Ohio Emergency Medical Dispatch mandate, but exceeded it by incorporating better support for law enforcement and fire service dispatch. PowerPhone’s user-friendly Total Response solution maximizes call-handling efficiency and […]
Read More...Norwalk Police Upgrade 911 Call Handling
911 callers now benefit from streamlined public safety call handling thanks to the Norwalk Police Department’s (Norwalk, CT) new Total Response solution. Total Response includes training and Computer-Aided Call Handling software (CACH) with structured protocols. These protocols support 911 dispatchers from call pick-up to providing responders with timely information and issuing pre-arrival instructions to callers as needed. The Norwalk Police Department is using Total Response’s CACH Lite software. CACH Lite offers many advantages over printed […]
Read More...Laclede County Reaffirms Commitment to Public Safety Call-Handling Support
The Laclede County Sheriff’s Department, MO has reaffirmed their commitment to public safety call-handling support by further integrating PowerPhone’s Total Response solution into their 911 operations. PowerPhone provided additional training and support to help Laclede County better understand and use the Total Response Solution. Certification and recertification in both Law Enforcement Dispatch and Fire Service Dispatch were included as part of the training for all dispatchers. Knowing that support is important to successfully implementing Total […]
Read More...Sullivan County Transitions 911 Call Handling to Total Response
After searching for an emergency call-handling solution that provided greater 911 call-handling consistency and imposed less restrictions on the dispatchers handling each call, Sullivan County Emergency Communications District (Tennessee) has successfully transitioned to PowerPhone’s Total Response solution. One of the major benefits Sullivan County residents will notice are that callers are only asked necessary, easy-to-understand questions. Sullivan County’s new approach assures that the facts of each call’s emergency determine both call priority and the dispatched […]
Read More...Stevens County Streamlines Emergency Medical Response
The Stevens County Sheriff’s Office (Colville, Washington) has streamlined emergency medical response for 911 calls by transitioning to PowerPhone’s Total Response system. Stevens County’s upgrade includes replacing paper-based call-handling protocols with a comprehensive Computer-Aided Call Handling (CACH) software system that seamlessly interfaces with their Spillman Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD). The interface provides responders with all of the gathered information while en route to an incident scene. PowerPhone worked closely with Stevens County Sheriff’s Office staff […]
Read More...PowerPhone Expands Telephone CPR (T-CPR) Training for All Call Handlers
911 call-handling solution and training provider PowerPhone is making its Telecommunicator CPR certification course available to all public safety call handlers. T-CPR certification incorporates everything that 911 call handlers need (as the true first responder on the scene) to consistently and effectively handle CPR-related calls. Expanding T-CPR training access is a proactive response to the American Heart Association’s (AHA) recommended program for increasing cardiac arrest survival by improving bystander CPR rates. The AHA has found that, “early […]
Read More...Kingsport Emergency Communications District Increases 911 Call-Handling Efficiency
Kingsport Emergency Communications District (Tennessee) has implemented PowerPhone’s Total Response solution for 911 call handling. Total Response includes CACH (Computer-Aided Call Handling), a proven software solution that streamlines the 911 call-handling process by providing integrated protocols and pre-arrival instructions that help guide dispatchers through each call to help quickly identify needed resources. Kingsport’s computer-aided dispatch (CAD) provider, TriTech Vision, interfaces with CACH’s open API to seamlessly share the information and help make dispatch decisions based […]
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