Thoughts on clinics

So clinics is the name but they are supposed to be small town medical centres that you may find in places that are too small or rural to have a full size hospital.

The hospital level thing I personally think would over complicate the medical system. You already can build expansions to hospitals such as trauma units which would increase the level of hospital. Patient transfer missions would require one of these specialities (obviously if you don’t have them you don’t have to send them to one, you just get paid less)

I love the thought of these medical centres, but you've got to adapt it to real life. For example, me in the UK, I'd most likely only add RRVs to them, maybe 1 ambulance, to make them realistic.

In this case it could Create calls of something turned more serious at the clinic requiring hospital transports,and Could act as another form of ambulance station

I don't understand why they would add clinics. If they are referencing an Urgent care facility where minor injuries (nosebleed, fever, other variations on existing missions), then that would make more sense. But like JebbyJnr said, having ambulances staffed out of them would be frivolous. What I would like to see is when you do a hospital expansion, you then get to select which of the associated calls that hospital can handle. For example, most ERs can manage trauma calls. So falls, hemorrhages, cardiac and respiratory arrests (of which those last two need to be removed from the trauma requirement) could go to any hospital. But then you could mark that hospital as unavailable to the more major trauma calls. If they want to add transfers, then if a major call gets brought to a hospital that can't handle it, 10 minutes later have it pop up as a transfer to a different centre.

They also need to get more specific with the medical calls if they're going to do that. Stroke could have a variation of a Large Vein Occlusion Stroke (LVO) that needs a comprehensive stroke centre (Neurosugery), while all others can go to primary centres that have the capability (Neurology where Stroke is checked off). Add a ROSC call that cardiac arrests can turn into that needs to go to a cardiac centre verses the nearest hospital for the call that stays an arrest. COPD and CHF exacerbation could be created and so on. It would be neat to see more diverse medical calls and the same effort to create different levels of medical calls that they have shown with the fire calls.

In my humble opinion, I dont see a use for clinics, as I'm more geared towards major cities. This new update wouldn't necessarily work for me. But for those who are working on rural areas, this might benefit them.

Maybe this could be just an option for players and not something that is required if it's going this route?

Clinics sound like a pretty decent idea. I saw something on the post that reference having the ability to have ambulance stations at the hospitals - this feature would be really neat as I have to build a ambulance station on top of the hospital to act as the clearing area

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In my humble opinion, I dont see a use for clinics, as I'm more geared towards major cities. This new update wouldn't necessarily work for me. But for those who are working on rural areas, this might benefit them.

Maybe this could be just an option for players and not something that is required if it's going this route?

This building wouldn’t be required and a hospital will still function the same way

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Clinics sound like a pretty decent idea. I saw something on the post that reference having the ability to have ambulance stations at the hospitals - this feature would be really neat as I have to build a ambulance station on top of the hospital to act as the clearing area

That is being looked at.

I’m all for clinics. As it said in the Facebook post. These will be a starting point for EMS. Currently EMS isn’t obtainable for new players but maybe that’s where they want to go.

I like the idea of making medical calls more complex but I do have to ask how would the call come through from dispatch. As you are a dispatcher would it come through very specific or would it say just suspected strike etc.

Also I love it when moderators who are supposed to give feedback are clearly not biased towards there own needs for the game Sarcasm*

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In my humble opinion, I dont see a use for clinics, as I'm more geared towards major cities. This new update wouldn't necessarily work for me. But for those who are working on rural areas, this might benefit them.

Maybe this could be just an option for players and not something that is required if it's going this route?

I HIGHLY doubt it'll be required. It's just another option for starting users to gain access to a medical facility and have a medical facility in a small town/village area. As TACRfan said, a hospital will remain exactly the same.

It's definately a viable method of implementation for me, seems well founded and does exactly what it says, provides an easier way for players to start to use the EMS side while also replicating a service which is provided. It's only positive things from me.

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This building wouldn’t be required and a hospital will still function the same way

That is being looked at.

Thank you for replying so quickly, would there be an option to migrate the ambulance stations currently built to these new "hospital ambulance stations"?

I'd like a temporary option to change hospitals to clinics. I've got about 7 which I would downgrade as they're only really there for speed (but not realism) and I like the more realistic aspect for lower category medical incidents. The issue is I don't want to spend 700k (or however much it may be) replacing all of these facilities.

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I'd like a temporary option to change hospitals to clinics. I've got about 7 which I would downgrade as they're only really there for speed (but not realism) and I like the more realistic aspect for lower category medical incidents. The issue is I don't want to spend 700k (or however much it may be) replacing all of these facilities.

This might be quite a difficult system as they will be different buildings and not just a smaller hospital.

Will the alliance be able to build the clinics or just the players ???

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Will the alliance be able to build the clinics or just the players ???

Not at this time but potentially we can look into it in the future. The issue is alliances can’t control vehicles however this may be something to be looked at in the future, maybe alliance ambulances etc. Also this would have to be looked at before we add ambulance extensions to hospitals.

A fix for the alliance icons glitch would be awesome too ^