Bill Text: IL SB3055 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the EMS Medical Directors Committee.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-08 - Referred to Assignments [SB3055 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB3055-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB3055 Introduced 2/8/2010, by Sen. Don Harmon SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 50/3.30
Amends the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning the EMS Medical Directors Committee.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act
is amended by changing Section 3.30 as follows:
(210 ILCS 50/3.30)
Sec. 3.30. EMS Region Plan; Content.
(a) The EMS Medical Directors Committee shall address at
least the following:
(1) Protocols for inter-System/inter-Region patient
transports, including identifying the the conditions of
emergency patients which may not be transported to the
different levels of emergency department, based on their
Department classifications and relevant Regional
considerations (e.g. transport times and distances);
(2) Regional standing medical orders;
(3) Patient transfer patterns, including criteria for
determining whether a patient needs the specialized
services of a trauma center, along with protocols for the
bypassing of or diversion to any hospital, trauma center or
regional trauma center which are consistent with
individual System bypass or diversion protocols and
protocols for patient choice or refusal;

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(4) Protocols for resolving Regional or Inter-System
conflict;
(5) An EMS disaster preparedness plan which includes
the actions and responsibilities of all EMS participants
within the Region. Within 90 days of the effective date of
this amendatory Act of 1996, an EMS System shall submit to
the Department for review an internal disaster plan. At a
minimum, the plan shall include contingency plans for the
transfer of patients to other facilities if an evacuation
of the hospital becomes necessary due to a catastrophe,
including but not limited to, a power failure;
(6) Regional standardization of continuing education
requirements;
(7) Regional standardization of Do Not Resuscitate
(DNR) policies, and protocols for power of attorney for
health care;
(8) Protocols for disbursement of Department grants;
and
(9) Protocols for the triage, treatment, and transport
of possible acute stroke patients.
(b) The Trauma Center Medical Directors or Trauma Center
Medical Directors Committee shall address at least the
following:
(1) The identification of Regional Trauma Centers;
(2) Protocols for inter-System and inter-Region trauma
patient transports, including identifying the conditions

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of emergency patients which may not be transported to the
different levels of emergency department, based on their
Department classifications and relevant Regional
considerations (e.g. transport times and distances);
(3) Regional trauma standing medical orders;
(4) Trauma patient transfer patterns, including
criteria for determining whether a patient needs the
specialized services of a trauma center, along with
protocols for the bypassing of or diversion to any
hospital, trauma center or regional trauma center which are
consistent with individual System bypass or diversion
protocols and protocols for patient choice or refusal;
(5) The identification of which types of patients can
be cared for by Level I and Level II Trauma Centers;
(6) Criteria for inter-hospital transfer of trauma
patients;
(7) The treatment of trauma patients in each trauma
center within the Region;
(8) A program for conducting a quarterly conference
which shall include at a minimum a discussion of morbidity
and mortality between all professional staff involved in
the care of trauma patients;
(9) The establishment of a Regional trauma quality
assurance and improvement subcommittee, consisting of
trauma surgeons, which shall perform periodic medical
audits of each trauma center's trauma services, and forward

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tabulated data from such reviews to the Department; and
(10) The establishment, within 90 days of the effective
date of this amendatory Act of 1996, of an internal
disaster plan, which shall include, at a minimum,
contingency plans for the transfer of patients to other
facilities if an evacuation of the hospital becomes
necessary due to a catastrophe, including but not limited
to, a power failure.
(c) The Region's EMS Medical Directors and Trauma Center
Medical Directors Committees shall appoint any subcommittees
which they deem necessary to address specific issues concerning
Region activities.
(Source: P.A. 96-514, eff. 1-1-10.)