94TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2005 and 2006
HB4014

 

Introduced 2/28/2005, by Rep. Lee A. Daniels

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
210 ILCS 50/3.10

    Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Changes a defined term from "non-emergency medical care" to "non-emergency medical services". Provides that "non-emergency medical services" includes medical care and monitoring (instead of services) rendered to a patient during treatment of such persons at health care facilities or at events at which the presence of health care personnel has been requested for public safety purposes, as well as during transportation of the patient to or from health care facilities (instead of only to such facilities). Eliminates a provision that the Act does not apply to the use of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport (for example, to an individual's residence), unless and until emergency or non-emergency medical services are needed during such transport.


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FISCAL NOTE ACT MAY APPLY

 

 

A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning regulation.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act
5 is amended by changing Section 3.10 as follows:
 
6     (210 ILCS 50/3.10)
7     Sec. 3.10. Scope of Services.
8     (a) "Advanced Life Support (ALS) Services" means an
9 advanced level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency
10 care and non-emergency medical services care that includes
11 basic life support care, cardiac monitoring, cardiac
12 defibrillation, electrocardiography, intravenous therapy,
13 administration of medications, drugs and solutions, use of
14 adjunctive medical devices, trauma care, and other authorized
15 techniques and procedures, as outlined in the Advanced Life
16 Support national curriculum of the United States Department of
17 Transportation and any modifications to that curriculum
18 specified in rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this
19 Act.
20     That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS
21 Medical Director in a Department approved advanced life support
22 EMS System, under the written or verbal direction of a
23 physician licensed to practice medicine in all of its branches
24 or under the verbal direction of an Emergency Communications
25 Registered Nurse.
26     (b) "Intermediate Life Support (ILS) Services" means an
27 intermediate level of pre-hospital and inter-hospital
28 emergency care and non-emergency medical services care that
29 includes basic life support care plus intravenous cannulation
30 and fluid therapy, invasive airway management, trauma care, and
31 other authorized techniques and procedures, as outlined in the
32 Intermediate Life Support national curriculum of the United

 

 

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1 States Department of Transportation and any modifications to
2 that curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department
3 pursuant to this Act.
4     That care shall be initiated as authorized by the EMS
5 Medical Director in a Department approved intermediate or
6 advanced life support EMS System, under the written or verbal
7 direction of a physician licensed to practice medicine in all
8 of its branches or under the verbal direction of an Emergency
9 Communications Registered Nurse.
10     (c) "Basic Life Support (BLS) Services" means a basic level
11 of pre-hospital and inter-hospital emergency care and
12 non-emergency medical services care that includes airway
13 management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), control of
14 shock and bleeding and splinting of fractures, as outlined in
15 the Basic Life Support national curriculum of the United States
16 Department of Transportation and any modifications to that
17 curriculum specified in rules adopted by the Department
18 pursuant to this Act.
19     That care shall be initiated, where authorized by the EMS
20 Medical Director in a Department approved EMS System, under the
21 written or verbal direction of a physician licensed to practice
22 medicine in all of its branches or under the verbal direction
23 of an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse.
24     (d) "First Response Services" means a preliminary level of
25 pre-hospital emergency care that includes cardiopulmonary
26 resuscitation (CPR), monitoring vital signs and control of
27 bleeding, as outlined in the First Responder curriculum of the
28 United States Department of Transportation and any
29 modifications to that curriculum specified in rules adopted by
30 the Department pursuant to this Act.
31     (e) "Pre-hospital care" means those emergency medical
32 services rendered to emergency patients for analytic,
33 resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes, precedent
34 to and during transportation of such patients to hospitals.
35     (f) "Inter-hospital care" means those emergency medical
36 services rendered to emergency patients for analytic,

 

 

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1 resuscitative, stabilizing, or preventive purposes, during
2 transportation of such patients from one hospital to another
3 hospital.
4     (g) "Non-emergency medical services care" means medical
5 care or monitoring services rendered to patients whose
6 conditions do not meet this Act's definition of emergency,
7 during treatment of such persons at health care facilities or
8 at events at which the presence of health care personnel has
9 been requested for public safety purposes, or during
10 transportation of such patients to or from health care
11 facilities visited for the purpose of obtaining medical or
12 health care services which are not emergency in nature, using a
13 vehicle regulated by this Act.
14     (h) (Blank). The provisions of this Act shall not apply to
15 the use of an ambulance or SEMSV for a non-medical transport
16 (e.g. to an individual's residence), unless and until emergency
17 or non-emergency medical services are needed during such
18 transport.
19 (Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)