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    Hospital Diversions

    Metadata Updated: January 18, 2026

    A. SUMMARY This dataset includes hospital diversion events declared by San Francisco hospitals.

    B. HOW THE DATASET IS CREATED San Francisco hospitals can declare ambulance diversion status, which diverts all ambulance transports away from the hospital of interest except certain specialty calls. This dataset contains number of diversion hours for each hospital. Each record includes the hospital name, the date and time diversion status started, the date and time diversion status ended, and duration of diversion status.

    C. UPDATE PROCESS The data is updated monthly by San Francisco Emergency Medical Services Agency.

    D. HOW TO USE THIS DATASET Hospitals are allowed to go on diversion for a maximum of 2 hours before they must re-declare diversion. If 4 or more hospitals go on diversion at the same time, diversion is suspended across all hospitals which means that no hospitals can go on diversion for the next 4 hours. The exception is San Francisco General (SFG) hospital. SFG can declare Trauma Override (functionally identical to hospital diversion) while diversion is suspended since it is San Francisco’s only trauma center. Please refer to the Hospital Suspensions dataset for more information on diversion suspension.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. License: No license information was provided.

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    Metadata Created Date March 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 18, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from SFO JSON

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date March 29, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date January 18, 2026
    Publisher data.sfgov.org
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    Identifier https://data.sfgov.org/api/views/t4sf-777q
    Data First Published 2024-08-16
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-16
    Category Health and Social Services
    Public Access Level public
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    Homepage URL https://data.sfgov.org/d/t4sf-777q
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