Michigan Administrative Code › Department - Health and Human Services › Population Health and Community Services › EMS Organization Licensure Rules › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R. 325.22102 - Definitions; E to M

Current through Vol. 24-12, July 15, 2024
Rule 102. As used in these rules:
(a) "Emergency medical services intercept"
				  means an ambulance operation is transporting an emergency patient from the
				  scene of an emergency, and requests patient care intervention from another
				  transporting ambulance operation.
(b) "Emergency medical services
				  telecommunications" means the reception and transmission of voice or data, or
				  both, information in the emergency medical services system consistent with the
				  medcom requirements prescribed by the department.
(c) "Field study status" means that process
				  required under sections
				  20910 and
				  20956 of the code, MCL
				  333.20910 and
				  333.20956.
(d) "Fixed wing aircraft" means a non-rotary
				  aircraft transport vehicle that is primarily used or available to provide
				  patient transportation between health facilities and is capable of providing
				  patient care according to orders issued by the patient's physician.
(e) "Ground ambulance" means a vehicle that
				  complies with design and structural specifications, as that term is defined in
				  these rules, and is licensed as an ambulance to provide transportation and
				  basic life support, limited advanced life support, or advanced life
				  support.
(f) "Hold itself out"
				  means the agency advertises, announces, or charges specifically for providing
				  emergency medical services, as that term is defined in the code.
(g) "License" means written authorization
				  issued by the department to a life support agency and its life support vehicles
				  to provide emergency medical services, as that term is defined in the
				  code.
(h) "License expiration date"
				  means the date of expiration indicated on the license issued by the
				  department.
(i) "Licensure action"
				  means probation, suspension, limitation, or removal by the department of a
				  license for a life support agency or a life support vehicle for violations of
				  the code or these rules.
(j) "Life
				  support agency" means an ambulance operation, non-transport pre-hospital life
				  support operation, air transport operation, or medical first response
				  service.
(k) "Life support vehicle"
				  means an ambulance, a non-transport, prehospital life support vehicle, or a
				  medical first response vehicle, as that term is defined in the code.
(l) "Medcom requirements" means medical
				  communication requirements for an emergency medical services communication
				  system.
(m) "Medical control" means
				  supervising and coordinating emergency medical services through a medical
				  control authority, as prescribed, adopted, and enforced through
				  department-approved protocols, within an emergency medical services
				  system.
(n) "Medical control
				  authority" means an organization designated by the department to provide
				  medical control.
(o) "Medical
				  control authority area" means the geographic area composed of a county, group
				  of counties, or parts of an individual county, as designated by the
				  department.
(p) "Medical control
				  authority board" means a board appointed by the participating organizations to
				  carry out the responsibilities and functions of the medical control
				  authority.
(q) "Mutual aid" means a
				  written agreement between 2 or more licensed life support agencies for the
				  provision of emergency medical services when an agency is unable to respond to
				  a request for emergency services, or an agreement according to the direction of
				  a medical control authority in accordance with department approved
				  protocols.