FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 303
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR GIBBONS.
Read 1st time January 21, 2003, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0879S.02I
AN ACT
To amend chapter 190, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to critical care ground ambulance service.
Section A.Chapter 190, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be known as section 190.121, to read as follows:
190.121.1.A licensed ground ambulance service located within a county with a charter form of government and with more than one million inhabitants may provide critical care ground ambulance service.For purposes of this section, "critical care ground ambulance service" is defined as the ground transport of a patient who requires a level of care, which is within the scope of training and qualifications of a critical care nurse.
2.All critical care transports shall be done in an ambulance designed and equipped for such purpose.Any ambulance used to provide critical care transports shall be staffed by at least three individuals including:
(1)A critical care nurse;
(2)A licensed paramedic who has successfully completed at least eighty hours of critical care training; and
(3)A licensed emergency medical technician-basic.
3.Critical care ground ambulance service may only be provided to a patient needing transport from a licensed hospital to a licensed hospital.
4.Any ambulance service providing critical care ground ambulance service shall maintain at least one hundred-twenty percent of the insurance required in regulation for a licensed ground ambulance service.
5.A licensed ground ambulance service may provide critical care ground ambulance service within its ambulance service area and no more than one hundred twenty-five miles away from the address listed on the ambulance service's license.