[Ord. No. 2010-760 § 1]
The purpose of this chapter is in an effort to increase the
availability of volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) squads
for emergency situations, and to eliminate the use of volunteer emergency
medical services (EMS) squads for nonemergency services.
[Ord. No. 2010-760 § 2]
All State-licensed nursing homes, health-care facilities, rest
homes, health maintenance organizations and other licensed medical
care providers within the Township are hereby required to own, lease,
rent or have immediately available by other arrangement an appropriately
staffed ambulance for the transporting of patients in need of nonemergency
care. The ambulance shall be available 365 days a year and 24 hours
a day, and shall be utilized as primary responder. The resident director,
manager or corporate officer of such locations shall certify the availability
of an appropriately staffed ambulance, and communicate the terms of
the chapter to all employees involved with emergency care.
[Ord. No. 2010-760 § 3]
A duly licensed nursing home, rest home or health maintenance
organization and other licensed medical care providers may request
the appropriate volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) squad serving
said nursing home, rest home or health maintenance organization in
any situation which falls within the definition of "advanced life
support," as such term is defined in N.J.S.A. 26:2K-7 et seq., and
applicable regulations promulgated by the New Jersey Department of
Health. Such situations, by way of example subject to any statutory
clarifications and definitions cited above, shall include chest pain,
difficulty in breathing, sudden loss of consciousness, stroke, diabetic
emergency, cardiac arrest, life-threatening hemorrhaging or other
life-threatening condition.
[Ord. No. 2010-760 § 5]
It shall constitute a violation of this chapter for any nursing
home, rest home or health maintenance organization, or any agent,
servant or employee thereof, to cause any volunteer emergency medical
services (EMS) squad to respond to a false alarm. For the purposes
of this chapter, "false alarm" shall be defined as any circumstance
where a determination is made by a mobile intensive care paramedic,
emergency medical technician or mobile intensive care nurse at the
scene that the situation does not meet the designated advanced life
support criteria as defined by the applicable statute and regulations
promulgated thereunder.