Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 20 - Community Health › Subchapter 10 - Screening, Medical Services, and Reporting › Part 2 - Emergency Medical Services › Section 216-RICR-20-10-2.3 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in
				  these Regulations the following terms shall be construed to mean:
1. "Ambulance" means any publicly or
				  privately-owned vehicle, designed, constructed, equipped, and operated for
				  emergency medical treatment and/or transportation of persons who are sick or
				  injured.
2. "Change of ownership of
				  ambulance service or EMS training institution" means:
a. In the case of a partnership, the removal,
				  addition, or substitution of a partner which results in a new partner acquiring
				  a controlling interest in such partnership;
b. In the case of an unincorporated sole
				  proprietorship, the transfer of the title and property to another
				  person;
c. In the case of a
				  corporation:
(1) A sale, lease, exchange, or
				  other disposition of all, or substantially all, of the property and assets of
				  the corporation; or
(2) A merger of
				  the corporation into another corporation; or
(3) The consolidation of two (2) or more
				  corporations, resulting in the creation of a new corporation; or
(4) In the case of a business corporation,
				  any transfer of corporate stock which results in a new person acquiring a
				  controlling interest in such corporation; or
(5) In the case of a non-business
				  corporation, any change in membership which results in a new person acquiring a
				  controlling vote in such corporation.
3. "COVID-19" means the new disease caused by
				  novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
4.
				  "Emergency medical services" or "EMS" means the practitioners, ambulance
				  vehicles, and ambulance service entities licensed to provide emergency medical
				  care, transportation, and preventive care to mitigate loss of life or
				  exacerbation of illness or injury.
5. "Emergency medical services
				  instructor-coordinator" or "EMS IC" means an individual who is licensed both as
				  an EMS practitioner and as an EMS Instructor-Coordinator.
6. "Emergency medical services (EMS)
				  practitioner" means an individual who is licensed to perform emergency medical
				  care and preventive care to mitigate loss of life or exacerbation of illness or
				  injury.
7. "Healthcare provider"
				  means a physician, physician assistant, or certified nurse practitioner
				  licensed to practice in Rhode Island.
8. "Mutual aid" means an agreement among
				  ambulance services to assist one another across jurisdictional
				  boundaries.
9. "National Registry
				  of Emergency Medical Technicians" or "NREMT" means the not-for-profit,
				  independent, non-governmental registration agency which conducts examinations
				  for the certification of EMS practitioners.
10. "RIDOH" means the Rhode Island Department
				  of Health.
11. "Rhode Island
				  Continued Competency Program" or "RI-CCP" means the program that defines how
				  EMS practitioners must accumulate continuing education hours in certain topic
				  areas to meet licensure renewal requirements.
12. "Rhode Island Emergency Medical Services
				  Information System" or "RI-EMSIS" means the central data repository of EMS data
				  for the State of Rhode Island.
13.
				  "Unprofessional conduct" means behavior that does not conform with established
				  standards of clinical care, or behavior that is a violation of statutory and/or
				  regulatory requirements.
14.
				  "Volunteer ambulance service" means a licensed ambulance service that provides
				  services utilizing staff who are volunteer EMS practitioners.
15. "Volunteer EMS practitioner" means a
				  licensed EMS practitioner who provides services without remuneration, other
				  than nominal payment or reimbursements for expenses.