HB4014 94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

LRB094 05705 DRJ 41695 b

94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4014

Introduced 2/28/2005, by Rep. Lee A. Daniels

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:

210 ILCS 50/3.10

Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Changes a defined term from "non-emergency medical care" to "non-emergency medical services". Provides that "non-emergency medical services" includes medical care and monitoring (instead of services) rendered to a patient during treatment of such persons at health care facilities or at events at which the presence of health care personnel has been requested for public safety purposes, as well as during transportation of the patient to or from health care facilities (instead of only to such facilities). Eliminates a provision that the Act does not apply to the use of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport (for example, to an individual's residence), unless and until emergency or non-emergency medical services are needed during such transport.

FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

A BILL FOR

AN ACT concerning regulation.

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly:

Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act is amended by changing Section 3.10 as follows:

(210 ILCS 50/3.10)

Sec. 3.10. Scope of Services.

(a) "Advanced Life Support (ALS) Services" means an advanced level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency care and non-emergency medical services care that includes basic life support care, cardiac monitoring, cardiac defibrillation, electrocardiography, intravenous therapy, administration of medications, drugs and solutions, use of adjunctive medical devices, trauma care, and other authorized techniques and procedures, as outlined in the Advanced Life Support national curriculum of the United States Department of Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.

That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS Medical Director in a Department approved advanced life support EMS System, under the written or verbal direction of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches or under the verbal direction of an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse.

(b) "Intermediate Life Support (ILS) Services" means an intermediate level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency care and non-emergency medical services care that includes basic life support care plus intravenous cannulation and fluid therapy, invasive airway management, trauma care, and other authorized techniques and procedures, as outlined in the Intermediate Life Support national curriculum of the United States Department of Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.

That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS Medical Director in a Department approved intermediate or advanced life support EMS System, under the written or verbal direction of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches or under the verbal direction of an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse.

(c) "Basic Life Support (BLS) Services" means a basic level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency care and non-emergency medical services care that includes airway management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), control of shock and bleeding and splinting of fractures, as outlined in the Basic Life Support national curriculum of the United States Department of Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.

That care shall be initiated, where authorized by the EMS Medical Director in a Department approved EMS System, under the written or verbal direction of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches or under the verbal direction of an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse.

(d) "First Response Services" means a preliminary level of pre-hospital emergency care that includes cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), monitoring vital signs and control of bleeding, as outlined in the First Responder curriculum of the United States Department of Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.

(e) "Pre-hospital care" means those emergency medical services rendered to emergency patients for analytic, resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes, precedent to and during transportation of such patients to hospitals.

(f) "Inter-hospital care" means those emergency medical services rendered to emergency patients for analytic, resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes, during transportation of such patients from one hospital to another hospital.

(g) "Non-emergency medical services care" means medical care or monitoring services rendered to patients whose conditions do not meet this Act's definition of emergency, during treatment of such persons at health care facilities or at events at which the presence of health care personnel has been requested for public safety purposes, or during transportation of such patients to or from health care facilities visited for the purpose of obtaining medical or health care services which are not emergency in nature, using a vehicle regulated by this Act.

(h) (Blank). The provisions of this Act shall not apply to the use of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport (e.g. to an individual's residence), unless and until emergency or non-emergency medical services are needed during such transport.

(Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)