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a. The purpose of this article is to preserve and enhance the availability
of first aid squad services for legitimate medical emergency situations
in the Township by regulating the use of first aid squad services
in certain nonemergency situations.
b. For the purposes of this article, "patient-care facilities" are defined
as all state-licensed nursing homes, rest homes, health maintenance
organizations, assisted-living facilities, health-care facilities
providing in-patient services, and other licensed or unlicensed medical
providers with the capacity to treat 10 or more outpatients simultaneously.
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a. All patient-care facilities located within the Township are required
to own, lease, rent or have promptly available by contract sufficient
and appropriately staffed private ambulance services for the treatment
and transport of patients in need of nonemergency medical care. Such
ambulance services shall be available 365 days per year and 24 hours
per day.
b. Each patient-care facility subject to this article shall file proof of compliance with Subsection
a within 60 days of the effective date of this article and thereafter annually on or before January 1.
1. The required proof must consist of a written contract with no less
than two private ambulance service providers under which such providers
are obligated to respond promptly to the patient-care facility.
2. Alternatively, if the patient-care facility elects to own, operate,
and provide its own ambulance service, the required proof must consist
of written documentation identifying the make, model, year, color,
serial number, license plate number, location, and staffing of each
ambulance.
3. The required proofs must be timely submitted to the Township Clerk,
along with a certification signed by the resident director, manager,
or other authorized corporate officer of the patient-care facility
affirming that:
(a)
Adequate private ambulances services are available; and
(b)
All agents and employees of the facility have been apprised
of and trained in the use of such private ambulance services.
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a. The failure of a patient facility to comply with the requirements
of § 38-2a and b constitutes a violation of this article.
Both the patient-care facility and its resident director, manager,
or authorized corporate officer are liable for such violations, which
are subject to the maximum fines and penalties established under N.J.S.A.
40:49-5 and 40:69A-29, and any such subsequent amendments or supplements
to those statutes.
b. In the event that an employee or agent of a patient-care facility
located in the Township takes actions resulting in the dispatch of
a first aid squad and the responding first aid squad, in its sole
discretion, determines that the dispatch did not involve circumstances
requiring the use of an advanced life support or paramedic unit, the
first aid squad shall provide the Township written certification to
that effect, and the patient-care facility shall be subject to a dispatch
fee of $750, payable to the Township. Any such fees collected by the
Township shall be remitted to the appropriate first aid squad pursuant
to N.J.S.A. 40:5-2.