California Health and Safety Code

§ 1831

HSC § 1831 Effective Jan 1, 2021Div. 2.5 · Ch. 13 · Art. 3

Statute text

Regulations adopted by the Emergency Medical Services Authority pursuant to Section 1830 relating to a triage to alternate destination program shall include all of the following:

(a)Local EMS agencies participating in providing patients with advanced life support triage and assessment by a triage paramedic and transportation to an alternate destination facility shall ensure that any patient who meets the triage criteria for transport to an alternate destination facility, but who requests to be transported to an emergency department of a general acute care hospital, shall be transported to the emergency department of a general acute care hospital.

(b)(1) Local EMS agencies participating in providing patients with advanced life support triage and assessment by a triage paramedic and transportation to an alternate destination facility shall require that a patient who is transported to an alternate destination facility and, upon assessment, is found to no longer meet the criteria for admission to an alternate destination facility, be immediately transported to the emergency department of a general acute care hospital.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 138, Sec. 4. (AB 1544) Effective January 1, 2021. Repealed as of January 1, 2031, pursuant to Section 1857.