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Emergency Medical Services Approved Amount: $ 0 Approved FTE: 0.00 Department Director: Ernesto Rodriguez - Chief Department Website: http://www.austintexas.gov/department/ems Department Phone: 512-972-7200 Performance Measure Information Name: Percent of potentially life-threatening responses (priority 1) within 9 minutes and 59 seconds Description: Percentage of Priority 1 calls responded to within 9:59 minutes or less in the City of Austin. Priority 1 calls have the biggest potential to be life threatening based on information received from the party calling 911. An example is cardiac arrest, where CPR and defibrillation are proven to improve patient outcome. Type: Result Current Data - Quarterly 2021 Target Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 2021 Actuals 90 No Data No Data No Data No Data 85.640 History Data FY 2016 Actual FY 2017 Actual FY 2018 Actual FY 2019 Actual FY 2020 Actual FY 2020 Target FY 2021 Target 91.430 91.010 90.120 89.640 88.700 90 90