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2005 SESSION

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SB 1146 Emergency Medical Services Plan, statewide; new requirements, and deletion of cross references.

Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan; additional programs.  Amends the objectives of the Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan by striking the now defunct registration program for automated external defibrillators and establishing new objectives including the identification and establishment of best practices for managing and operating agencies and improving and managing emergency medical response times as well as the establishment of (i) a process for crisis intervention and peer support services for emergency medical services and public safety personnel; (ii) a statewide emergency medical services for children program; (iii) a statewide system of health and medical emergency response teams; and (iv) a program to improve dispatching of emergency medical services.  The bill further provides that the Board of Health's Statewide Emergency Medical Services Plan may be posted on the Department of Health's website to satisfy the publication requirement.  This bill is identical to HB 2253.


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