2011 Connecticut Code
Title 19a Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368d Emergency Medical Services
Sec. 19a-181b. Local emergency medical services plan.

      Sec. 19a-181b. Local emergency medical services plan. (a) Not later than July 1, 2002, each municipality shall establish a local emergency medical services plan. Such plan shall include the written agreements or contracts developed between the municipality, its emergency medical services providers and the public safety answering point, as defined in section 28-25, that covers the municipality. The plan shall also include, but not be limited to, the following:

      (1) The identification of levels of emergency medical services, including, but not limited to: (A) The public safety answering point responsible for receiving emergency calls and notifying and assigning the appropriate provider to a call for emergency medical services; (B) the emergency medical services provider that is notified for initial response; (C) basic ambulance service; (D) advanced life support level; and (E) mutual aid call arrangements;

      (2) The name of the person or entity responsible for carrying out each level of emergency medical services that the plan identifies;

      (3) The establishment of performance standards for each segment of the municipality's emergency medical services system; and

      (4) Any subcontracts, written agreements or mutual aid call agreements that emergency medical services providers may have with other entities to provide services identified in the plan.

      (b) In developing the plan required by subsection (a) of this section, each municipality: (1) May consult with and obtain the assistance of its regional emergency medical services council established pursuant to section 19a-183, its regional emergency medical services coordinator appointed pursuant to section 19a-186a, its regional emergency medical services medical advisory committees and any sponsor hospital, as defined in regulations adopted pursuant to section 19a-179, located in the area identified in the plan; and (2) shall submit the plan to its regional emergency medical services council for the council's review and comment.

      (P.A. 00-151, S. 9, 14; P.A. 10-117, S. 55.)

      History: P.A. 00-151 effective July 1, 2000; P.A. 10-117 amended Subsec. (b)(1) by substituting reference to Sec. 19a-186a for reference to Sec. 19a-185, effective July 1, 2010.