SB 0303 | Allows licensed ground ambulance services in St. Louis to transport patients within a 130-mile radius |
Sponsor: | Gibbons | |||
LR Number: | 0879S.04P | Fiscal Note: | 0879-04 | |
Committee: | Aging, Families, Mental & Public Health | |||
Last Action: | 04/17/03 - Referred H Health Care Policy Committee | Journal page: | H1124 | |
Title: | SCS SB 303 | |||
Effective Date: | August 28, 2003 | |||
SCS/SB 303 - This act provides that a licensed ground ambulance service located within Saint Louis County may provide critical care ground ambulance service. 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.
Such critical care transport may only occur between two
licensed hospitals. The transport shall be done in an ambulance
designed and equipped for such purpose and must include certain
personnel trained in critical care. An ambulance service
providing critical care ground ambulance service must maintain at
least 120% of the insurance required in regulation for a licensed
ambulance service. The ambulance service may only provide such
critical care ground ambulance service within its service area
and no more than 125 miles away from its address of record.
RICHARD MOORE