Oregon Statutes 682.017 – Rules
The Oregon Health Authority shall adopt rules in accordance with ORS Chapter 183 that include, but are not limited to:
Terms Used In Oregon Statutes 682.017
- Ambulance service: means a person, governmental unit or other entity that operates ambulances and that holds itself out as providing prehospital care or medical transportation to persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
- Emergency care: means the performance of acts or procedures under emergency conditions in the observation, care and counsel of persons who are ill or injured or who have disabilities; in the administration of care or medications prescribed by a licensed physician or naturopathic physician, insofar as any of these acts is based upon knowledge and application of the principles of biological, physical and social science as required by a completed course utilizing an approved curriculum in prehospital emergency care. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
- Emergency medical services provider: means a person who has received formal training in prehospital and emergency care, and is licensed to attend any person who is ill or injured or who has a disability. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
- Patient: means a person who is ill or injured or who has a disability and who receives emergency or nonemergency care from an emergency medical services provider. See Oregon Statutes 682.025
(1) Requirements relating to the types and numbers of emergency vehicles, including supplies and equipment carried.
(2) Requirements for the operation and coordination of ambulances and other emergency care systems.
(3) Criteria for the use of two-way communications.
(4) Procedures for summoning and dispatching aid.
(5) Requirements that ambulance services report patient encounter data to an electronic emergency medical services data system managed by the authority. The requirements must specify the data that an ambulance service must report, the form and frequency of the reporting and the procedures and standards for the administration of the data system.
(6) Levels of licensure for emergency medical services providers. The lowest level of emergency medical services provider licensure must be an emergency medical responder license.
(7) Other rules as necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter. [Formerly 682.215; 2009 c.595 § 1063; 2011 c.703 § 2; 2017 c.229 § 1]