(a) No person shall furnish, operate, maintain, conduct, advertise, or in any way engage in or profess to engage in the business of providing emergency transport of patients upon the streets and highways of Arkansas unless that person holds a valid ambulance service license or provisional ambulance service license issued by the Department of Health. […]
(a) (1) An application for the issuance or renewal of an ambulance service license or a provisional ambulance service license shall be made on forms provided by the Department of Health and shall be accompanied by any fee as required by law or by rules promulgated by the department. (2) Each license shall be renewed […]
(a) (1) (A) A licensee under this subchapter may transport any patient to the care facility of the patient’s choice subject to service area limitations, applicable federal law, and the licensee’s local protocol. (B) If the patient is unable to make a choice and if the attending physician is present and has expressed a choice […]
(a) An ambulance service shall not in any way advertise to the general public the service areas, skills, procedures, or personnel certification levels which it cannot provide on every emergency request, twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week. (b) The service area shall be clearly identified in writing and shall be on […]
Three (3) formal citations during the license term for failure to comply with this subchapter and any rules promulgated by the Department of Health in regard to ambulance services shall result in revocation of the ambulance service license.
In mass casualty incidents, which overwhelm the region’s available resources, the Department of Health shall promulgate rules which establish procedures for the transportation of patients by ambulances.
