N.Y. Public Health Law 3017 – Emergency medical service, Suffolk county
§ 3017. Emergency medical service, Suffolk county. 1. No ambulance service or advanced life support first response service shall respond to any call or request for emergency medical services within a town, village or fire district in Suffolk county that currently provides ambulance service or advanced life support services first response service, if the municipality has designated one or more ambulance services or advanced life support first response services to respond to such calls unless:
Terms Used In N.Y. Public Health Law 3017
- Advanced life support first response service: means an organization which provides advanced life support care, but does not transport patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001
- Ambulance service: means an individual, partnership, association, corporation, municipality or any legal or public entity or subdivision thereof engaged in providing emergency medical care and the transportation of sick or injured persons by motor vehicle, aircraft or other forms of transportation to, from, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001
- Emergency medical service: means initial emergency medical assistance including, but not limited to, the treatment of trauma, burns, respiratory, circulatory and obstetrical emergencies. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3001
(a) the service is so designated;
(b) the response is in accordance with a mutual aid plan approved by the appropriate regional emergency medical service council;
(c) the response is to a verbal mutual aid request from a designated service;
(d) the service was specifically requested to respond by the patient or someone acting on behalf of that patient; or
(e) the response site is a hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter for a transfer to another such facility.
2. Every ambulance service or advanced life support first response service shall disclose as part of any solicitation or advertisement in Suffolk county that there is a fee for services rendered, if in fact there is a fee charged for the performance of such service.
3. Every ambulance service or advanced life support first response service that operates in Suffolk county and has vehicles which travel through communities with designated ambulance service or advanced life support first response service shall require its drivers and emergency medical technicians:
(a) to immediately notify a central alarm or other publicly operated dispatch entity, or a person designated under § 209-b of the general municipal law to receive calls for emergency services for the purpose of dispatching emergency medical services whenever an emergency is found in a public place;
(b) to evaluate the need to transport any patient found in extremis to a hospital; and
(c) to comply with appropriate instructions from the dispatch entity. The dispatch entity, when appropriate, may instruct the service to transport any patient to an appropriate hospital.