2022 Hawaii Revised Statutes
Title 19. Health
321. Department of Health
321-221 Findings and purpose. §321-221 Findings and purpose.

Note

Part heading effective until June 30, 2022. For part heading effective July 1, 2022, see below.

PART XVIII. STATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL

SERVICES SYSTEM

Note

Part heading amended by L 2021, c 208, §3.

Part heading effective July 1, 2022. For part heading effective until June 30, 2022, see above.

Emergency medical services; community paramedicine program; report to 2020-2023 legislature. L 2019, c 140, §3.

Study of the state emergency medical system; task force to develop a plan to implement findings and recommendations of the study; reports to 2020-2021 legislature (task force dissolved on June 30, 2021). L 2019, c 60, § §2, 3.

Cross References

County emergency medical services system, see chapter 46, part XI.

Enhanced 911 services for mobile phones, see chapter 138.

Peer support counseling; sessions, see §78-52.

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. [Section effective until June 30, 2022. For section effective July 1, 2022, see below.] The legislature finds that the establishment of a state comprehensive emergency medical services system to include but not be limited to emergency medical services for children, is a matter of compelling state interest and necessary to protect and preserve the health of the people of the State. A system designed to reduce medical emergency deaths, injuries, and permanent long-term disability through the implementation of a fully integrated, cohesive network of components, the legislature further finds, will best serve the health needs of the people. Accordingly, the purpose of this part is to establish and maintain a state comprehensive emergency medical services system throughout the State, and to fix the responsibility for the administration of this state system which shall provide for the arrangement of personnel, facilities, and equipment for the effective and coordinated delivery of health care services under emergency conditions whether occurring as the result of a patient's condition or of natural disasters or other causes. The system shall provide for 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 consumer participation, accessibility to care, mandatory standard medical recordkeeping, consumer information and education, independent review and evaluation, disaster linkage, mutual aid agreements, and other components necessary to meet the purposes of this part. L 1978, c 148, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 93, §1; am L 1994, c 242, §1

§321-221 Findings and purpose. [Section effective July 1, 2022. For section effective until June 30, 2022, see above.] The legislature finds that the establishment of a state emergency medical services system, including emergency medical services for children, is a matter of compelling state interest and necessary to protect and preserve public health. A system designed to reduce medical emergency deaths, injuries, and permanent long-term disability through the implementation of a fully integrated, cohesive network of components, the legislature further finds, will best serve public health needs. Accordingly, the purpose of this part is to establish and maintain a state emergency medical services system in communities that can be most effectively served by the State, and to fix the responsibility for the administration of this state system, which shall provide for the arrangement of personnel, facilities, and equipment for the effective and coordinated delivery of health care services under emergency conditions, whether occurring as the result of a patient's condition, from natural disasters, or from other causes. The system shall provide for 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 consumer participation, accessibility to care, mandatory standard medical recordkeeping, consumer information and education, independent review and evaluation, disaster linkage, mutual aid agreements, and other components necessary to meet the purposes of this part. [L 1978, c 148, pt of §1; am L 1981, c 93, §1; am L 1994, c 242, §1; am L 2021, c 208, §4]