New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 27 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES › Part 4 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FUND ACT › Section 7.27.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Accumulation
" means the expenditure or disposition in the current
				fiscal year of funds distributed in the prior fiscal year. However, a
				municipality or county may accumulate balances to purchase vehicles or
				equipment if the accumulation and a purchase plan have been approved by the
				bureau.
B.
"Act"
means the Emergency Medical Services Fund Act, Section
				24-10A-1,
				et seq., NMSA 1978 (as amended by Laws of 2001, Chapter 273).
C.
"Advisory committee"
means
				those individuals, representing specific agencies, organizations, and consumers
				appointed by the secretary to advise the bureau on statewide EMS policy
				matters.
D.
"Ambulance
				service"
means a publicly or privately owned entity holding a current
				certificate of the New Mexico public regulation commission as an emergency
				response ambulance service and subject to the rules and regulations of the
				public regulation commission or its successor agency.
E.
"Applicant"
means an
				incorporated municipality or county applying on behalf of a local recipient.
				For special funding applications (i.e., statewide and local system improvement
				projects), applicant also includes EMS regional office, approved training
				institution or the bureau.
F.
"Area"
for purposes of pro-rata allocation of designated funds by
				county as described in Subsection D of 7.27.4.11 NMAC, of this rule, means the
				area, expressed in square miles, for each New Mexico county as reported in the
				U.S. department of commerce publication entitled
area measurement
				reports, areas of New Mexico: (most recent edition).
G.
"Bureau"
means the emergency
				medical systems bureau of the office of health emergency management, New Mexico
				department of health.
H.
"Chief"
means the chief of the emergency medical systems
				bureau.
I.
"Department"
means the New Mexico department of health.
J.
"Director"
means the
				director of the epidemiology and response division.
K.
"Division"
means the
				epidemiology and response division.
L.
"Eligible item"
means a cost
				or item of proposed expenditure under the local EMS funding program, which is
				eligible for funding under the act and includes those categories listed in
				Subsection N of 7.27.4.11 NMAC of this rule.
M.
"Emergency medical dispatch agency
				(EMDA)"
means an organization, or a combination of organizations working
				cooperatively, that routinely accepts calls for emergency medical assistance
				and employs emergency medical dispatch priority reference system (EMDPRS)
				techniques.
N.
"EMS"
means the services rendered by emergency medical technicians, licensed
				emergency medical services first responders or emergency medical dispatchers in
				response to an individual's need for immediate medical care to prevent loss of
				life or aggravation of physical or psychological illness or injury.
O.
"EMS regional office"
means
				those regional planning and development agencies formally recognized and
				supported by the bureau.
P.
"Fiscal year
" means the state fiscal year that runs from July 1 through
				June 30 each year.
Q.
"Federal fiscal year "
means the federal fiscal year that runs from
				October 1 through September 30 each year.
R.
"Fund"
means the emergency
				medical services fund.
S.
"Licensing fees"
mean the licensure fees, licensure renewal fees, and
				travel and per-diem expenses associated with the licensing and the
				certification process in New Mexico required of emergency medical technicians
				and licensed EMS first responders under current regulations governing the
				certification and licensing of EMS personnel.
T.
"Local EMS personnel
" means
				an individual who is authorized to provide pre-hospital care and is affiliated
				with a local recipient.
U.
"Local emergency medical services system"
means coordinated system of
				health care in a defined geographic area, including but not limited to
				community education and prevention programs, centralized access, emergency
				medical dispatch, law enforcement, licensed EMS personnel, fire medical rescue,
				ambulance, and hospital which support, respond to and/or provide emergency
				medical care in an organized fashion to the real or perceived needs of sick or
				injured persons in New Mexico and its border areas. For the purpose of funding,
				local emergency medical service system means one or more local recipients
				within a single EMS system.
V.
"Local recipient"
means an ambulance service, medical rescue
				service, fire department rescue service or fire district, air ambulance
				service, or other pre-hospital care provider:
(1) that routinely responds to an
				individual's need for immediate medical care in order to prevent loss of life
				or aggravation of physical or psychological illness or injury;
(2) whose application for funding through the
				Emergency Medical Services Fund Act is sponsored by a municipality or
				county;
(3) that meets department
				guidelines concerning personnel training, use of bureau-approved run forms,
				participation in mutual aid agreements and medical control and;
(4) receives funds distributed under the act
				and this rule.