[PARTXVIII.]  STATE COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY

MEDICALSERVICES SYSTEM

 

Cross References

 

  Enhanced 911 services for mobile phones, see chapter 138.

  Peer support counseling; sessions, see §78-64.

  Safe place for newborns, see chapter 587D.

  Trauma system special fund, see §321-22.5.

  Volunteer emergency medical disaster response personnel, see§321-23.3.

 

§321-221  Findings and purpose.  Thelegislature finds that the establishment of a state comprehensive emergencymedical services system to include but not be limited to emergency medicalservices for children is a matter of compelling state interest and necessary toprotect and preserve the health of the people of the State.  A system designedto reduce medical emergency deaths, injuries, and permanent long-termdisability through the implementation of a fully integrated, cohesive networkof components, the legislature further finds, will best serve the health needsof the people.  Accordingly, the purpose of this part is to establish andmaintain a state comprehensive emergency medical services system throughout theState, and to fix the responsibility for the administration of this statesystem which shall provide for the arrangement of personnel, facilities, andequipment for the effective and coordinated delivery of health care servicesunder emergency conditions whether occurring as the result of a patient'scondition or of natural disasters or other causes.  The system shall providefor personnel, personnel training, communications, emergency transportation,facilities, coordination with emergency medical and critical care services,coordination and use of available public safety agencies, promotion of consumerparticipation, accessibility to care, mandatory standard medical recordkeeping,consumer information and education, independent review and evaluation, disasterlinkage, mutual aid agreements, and other components necessary to meet thepurposes of this part. [L 1978, c 148, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 93, §1; am L1994, c 242, §1]