California Health and Safety Code

§ 1797.195

HSC § 1797.195 Effective Jan 1, 1996Div. 2.5 · Ch. 3 · Art. 5

Statute text

(a)Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P may provide emergency medical care pursuant to this section in the emergency department of a hospital that meets the definition of small and rural hospital pursuant to Section 1188.855, except that in the case of a hospital meeting the definition contained in Section 1188.855 the population of the incorporated place or census designated place where the hospital is located shall not have increased to more than 20,000 since 1980, and all of the following conditions are met:

(1)The EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P is on duty as a prehospital emergency medical care provider.

(2)The EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P shall function under direct supervision as defined in hospital protocols that have been issued pursuant to paragraph (3), and only where the physician and surgeon or the registered nurse determines that the emergency department is faced with a patient crisis, and that the services of the EMT-I, EMT-II, or EMT-P are necessary to temporarily meet the health care needs of the patients in the emergency department.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 239, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1996.