2020 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 311A - Emergency medical services 311A.030 Administrative regulations relating to ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, first -response providers, and emergency medical services training institutions.
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311A.030
Administrative regulations relating to ambulance services, mobile
integrated healthcare programs, first -response providers, and emergency
medical services training institutions.
The board shall promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter
13A to carry out the functions of this chapter, including but not limited to:
(1) Licensing, inspecting, and regulating of ambulance services, mobile integrated
healthcare programs, and medical first -response providers. The administrative
regulations shall address specific requirements for:
(a) Class I ground ambulance providers, which provide basic life support or
advanced life support services to all patients for emergencies or scheduled
ambulance transportation which is medically necessary;
(b) Class II ground ambulance providers, which provide only basic life support
services but do not provide initial response to the general population with
medical emergencies and which are limited to providing scheduled ambulance
transportation which is medically necessary;
(c) Class III ground ambulance providers, which provide mobile intensive care
services at or above the level of advanced life support to patients with critical
illnesses or injuries who must be transported between hospitals in vehicles
with specialized equipment as an extension of hospital-level care;
(d) Class IV ground ambulance providers, which provide basic life support or
advanced life support services and transportation for restricted locations such
as industrial sites and other sites that do not provide services outside a
designated site;
(e) Class V mobile integrated healthcare programs, which do not transport
patients as a function of the program and which must be operated by or in
affiliation with a Class I ambulance provider that provides emergency medical
response in the geographic area;
(f) Class VI medical first response providers, which provide basic or advanced
life support services, but do not transport patients;
(g) Class VII air ambulance providers, which provide basic or advanced life
support services; and
(h) Class VIII event medicine providers, which provide basic or advanced life
support services, but do not transport patients; and
(2) Licensing, inspecting, and regulating of emergency medical services training
institutions.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to change or alter the issuance of certificates of
need for emergency medical services providers.
Effective: June 27, 2019
History: Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 100, sec. 5, effective June 27, 2019. -- Created
2002 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 5, effective July 15, 2002.
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