Table 3. Capital, Operating, and Personnel Costs, and Mean Cost per Minutea.
Characteristic | Costs, CAD$ | |||
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Mobile Integrated Health Care | Ambulance | |||
2018-2019 | 2018-2019 | 2017-2018 | 2016-2017 | |
Capital cost | 173 645 | 3 440 115 | 3 122 588 | 3 056 410 |
Operating cost | 45 214 | 1 022 418 | 1 075 126 | 888 305 |
Personnel cost | ||||
On-vehicle staff | 562 476 | 32 290 254 | 30 608 375 | 29 952 734 |
Administration staff | 110 119 | 3 931 758 | 3 888 056 | 4 021 170 |
Total cost | 891 453 | 40 684 544 | 38 694 146 | 37 918 619 |
Service time, minb | 126 750 | 4 525 558 | 4 712 833 | 4 112 852 |
Capital cost per min | 0.066 | 0.142 | 0.141 | 0.141 |
Operating cost per min | 0.357 | 0.226 | 0.228 | 0.216 |
Personnel cost per min | 0.256 | 1.497 | 1.562 | 1.575 |
Mean cost per min | 0.679 | 1.865 | 1.931 | 1.933 |
All costs were adjusted to 2019 Canadian dollars using the inflation rates published by Bank of Canada (1 CAD$ = $0.7537 US in 2019).
The service time is the total time on task from responding to the call to final disposition either on scene or at hospital.