Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 48 - PUBLIC HEALTH-GENERAL › Part I - General Administration › Subpart 3 - Licensing and Certification › Chapter 60 - Emergency Medical Transportation Services › Subchapter A - General Provisions › Section I-6003 - Definitions [Formerly section 6001]

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
Advanced Life Support (ALS)
-the
						provision of medically necessary supplies and services by EMS practitioners who
						are licensed at least to the level of advanced emergency medical technician or
						equivalent.
Air Ambulance
-any aircraft, either
						fixed-winged or rotary-winged, designed and operated as a part of a regular
						course of conduct or business to transport a sick or injured individual, or
						which is advertised or otherwise held out to the public as such.
Air Ambulance Service
-any person, firm,
						association, or government entity owning, controlling, or operating any
						business or service which furnishes, operates, conducts, maintains, advertises,
						engages in, proposes to engage in, or professes to engage in the business or
						service of transporting, in air ambulances, individuals who may need medical
						attention during transport.
Ambulance
-any authorized emergency
						vehicle, equipped with warning devices, designed and operated as a part of a
						regular course of conduct or business to transport a sick or injured
						individual, or which is advertised or otherwise held out to the public as
						such.
1. For purposes of these
					 provisions, ambulance shall not mean a hearse or other funeral home vehicle
					 utilized for the transportation of the dead.
2. Transportation by ambulance is inclusive
					 of ground transport vehicles or by aircraft, either fixed-winged or
					 rotary-winged.
Ambulance Service or Ambulance
						Provider
-any person, firm, association, or government entity owning,
						controlling, or operating any business or service which furnishes, operates,
						conducts, maintains, advertises, engages in, proposes to engage in, or
						professes to engage in the business or service of transporting, in ambulances,
						individuals who may need medical attention during transport.
1. Ambulance services/providers shall not
					 include any of the following:
a. an agency of
					 the federal government;
b. a
					 volunteer nonprofit organization or municipal nonprofit organization operating
					 an invalid coach or coaches;
c. an
					 entity rendering assistance to a licensed ambulance or ambulances in the case
					 of a major disaster;
d. a licensed
					 hospital providing nonemergency, noncritical, inter-hospital transfer and
					 patient transportation for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes when such
					 transportation originates at a licensed hospital;
e. an entity operating an ambulance(s) from a
					 location outside of the state to transport patients from a location outside of
					 the state to a location inside the state or to transport a patient(s) from a
					 medical facility inside of the state to a location outside of the state;
					 or
f. an entity providing
					 transportation to employees, who become sick or injured during the course of
					 their employment, from a job site to the nearest appropriate medical facility.
Appropriate Facility-
an institution
						generally equipped to provide the needed hospital or skilled nursing care for
						the illness or injury involved. In the case of a hospital, a physician or a
						physician specialist is available to provide the necessary care required to
						treat the patient's condition.
Basic Life Support (BLS)
-a basic level
						of out-of-hospital, hospital, inter-hospital, and emergency service care which
						includes an assessment or intervention by a licensed emergency medical services
						practitioner who possesses a Louisiana Bureau of Emergency Medical Services
						license at the Emergency Medical Technical level.
Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (Bureau of
						EMS, BEMS)
-the EMS regulatory agency that licenses EMS practitioners
						and ambulance services/providers.
Certified Ambulance Operator
-an
						individual who is certified by the Bureau of EMS as a certified ambulance
						operator. Documentation outlined in statute must be submitted before
						certification is received.
Cessation of Business
-occurs when an
						ambulance service is non-operational and voluntarily stops rendering services
						to the community.
Change of Ownership
(CHOW)-the sale or
						transfer (whether by purchase, lease, gift or otherwise) of an ambulance
						service/provider by a person/entity with controlling interest that results in a
						change of ownership, or control of 30 percent or greater of either the voting
						rights or assets of an ambulance service/provider, or that results in the
						acquiring person/corporation holding a 50 percent or greater interest in the
						ownership or control of the ambulance service/provider.
Commission
-the Louisiana Emergency
						Medical Services Certification Commission.
Department
-the Louisiana Department of
						Health (LDH).
Emergency Medical Personnel or Emergency Service
						Person
-an individual who possesses a Bureau of EMS license as an EMS
						Practitioner.
Emergency Medical Response Vehicle
						(EMRV)
-a marked emergency vehicle with fully visual and/or audible
						warning signals, operated by a licensed ambulance service/provider, whose
						primary purpose is to respond to the scene of a medical emergency to provide
						emergency medical stabilization or support, command, control, and
						communications, but which is not an ambulance designed or intended for the
						purpose of transporting a victim from the scene to a medical facility,
						regardless of its designation.