Bill Text: NJ A4526 | 2014-2015 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Revises certain requirements concerning provision of emergency medical services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-06-25 - Substituted by S2980 (1R) [A4526 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2014-A4526-Introduced.html
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman GILBERT "WHIP" L. WILSON
District 5 (Camden and Gloucester)
SYNOPSIS
Revises certain requirements concerning provision of emergency medical services.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As introduced.
An Act concerning emergency medical services and supplementing P.L.1984, c.146 (C.26:2K-7 et seq.).
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. a. A hospital which is designated a Level 1 trauma center shall be exclusively authorized to develop and maintain advanced life support services in the municipality in which the trauma center is located, and shall have the right of first refusal to provide both advanced life support and basic life support services in the municipality.
b. A hospital which is designated a Level 1 trauma center shall have the right to apply under expedited review to provide advanced life support services in additional municipalities in which an acute care hospital that is part of the same health system as the Level 1 trauma center is located, provided such application for expedited review is submitted on or before December 31, 2015.
2. This act shall take effect on the 180th day after the date of enactment.
STATEMENT
This bill grants hospitals which are designated Level 1 trauma centers the exclusive authority to provide advance life support services in the municipality in which the trauma center is located, and grants the trauma centers the right of first refusal to provide both advanced life support and basic life support services in the municipality.
The bill provides that hospitals which are designated Level 1 trauma centers will have the right to apply under expedited review to provide advanced life support services in additional municipalities in which an acute care hospital that is part of the same health system as the Level 1 trauma center is located, provided such application for expedited review is submitted on or before December 31, 2015.
It is the sponsor's belief that linking advanced life support and basic life support services under the State's designated regional trauma centers will centralize medical oversight, facilitate high-quality prehospital care, and support a more cost-efficient system.
