3015 – Separability.
§ 3015. Separability. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article shall be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, section or part of this article […]
3016 – Continuance of Rules and Regulations.
§ 3016. Continuance of rules and regulations. All rules and regulations heretofore adopted by the commissioner pertaining to all ambulance services shall continue in full force and effect as rules and regulations until duly modified or superseded by rules and regulations hereafter adopted and enacted by the state council pursuant to section three thousand two […]
3017 – Emergency Medical Service, Suffolk County.
§ 3017. Emergency medical service, Suffolk county. 1. No ambulance service or advanced life support first response service shall respond to any call or request for emergency medical services within a town, village or fire district in Suffolk county that currently provides ambulance service or advanced life support services first response service, if the municipality […]
3018 – Community-Based Paramedicine Demonstration Program.
* § 3018. Community-based paramedicine demonstration program. 1. The department shall establish a community paramedicine demonstration program to evaluate the role of emergency medical services personnel in the delivery of health care services in the community in non-emergent settings. 2. For purposes of this section, “emergency medical services personnel” shall mean an emergency medical technician, […]
3020 – Recruitment and Retention.
§ 3020. Recruitment and retention. 1. The commissioner shall establish and fund within amounts appropriated, a public service campaign to recruit additional personnel into the emergency medical system fields. 2. The commissioner shall establish and fund within amounts appropriated an emergency medical system mental health and wellness program that provides resources to emergency medical service […]
3006 – Quality Improvement Program.
§ 3006. Quality improvement program. 1. By January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven, every ambulance service and advanced life support first response service shall establish or participate in a quality improvement program, which shall be an ongoing system to monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of the medical care provided by the ambulance service or […]
3006-A – Patient Privacy.
§ 3006-a. Patient privacy. 1. As used in this section: (a) “Individual identifying information” means information identifying or tending to identify a patient. (b) “Marketing” means advertising, detailing, marketing, promotion, or any other activity that is intended to be used to influence business volume, sales or market share or evaluate the effectiveness of marketing practices […]
3007 – Notice of Alternative Destination.
§ 3007. Notice of alternative destination. In any city having a population of one million or more, whenever an individual is transported by ambulance from one facility to a second facility and the destination is changed, it shall be the responsibility of the senior ambulance dispatcher to inform the facility of origin by telephone of […]
3008 – Applications for Determinations of Public Need.
§ 3008. Applications for determinations of public need. 1. Every application for a determination of public need shall be made in writing to the appropriate regional council, shall specify the primary territory within which the applicant requests to operate, be verified under oath, and shall be in such form and contain such information as required […]
3009 – Continuation of Existing Services.
§ 3009. Continuation of existing services. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of sections three thousand four and three thousand five of this article, if any ambulance service or a predecessor in interest was in bona fide operation as an ambulance service on April first, nineteen hundred seventy-five, within the territory for which application for an ambulance […]