May 8, 2003, Introduced by Reps. DeRoche, Hoogendyk, Hune, Bradstreet, Garfield, LaJoy, Moolenaar, Wenke, Pappageorge, Ward, Stakoe, Huizenga, Bisbee, Ehardt, Taub, Palsrok and Pastor and referred to the Committee on Health Policy.
A bill to amend 1978 PA 368, entitled
"Public health code,"
by amending section 20906 (MCL 333.20906), as amended by 2000 PA
375.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:
1 Sec. 20906. (1) "Life support agency" means an ambulance
2 operation, nontransport prehospital life support operation,
3 aircraft transport operation, or medical first response service.
4 (2) "Limited advanced life support" means patient care that
5 may include any care an emergency medical technician specialist
6 is qualified to provide by emergency medical technician
7 specialist education that meets the educational requirements
8 established by the department under section 20912 or is
9 authorized to provide by the protocols established by the local
10 medical control authority under section 20919 for an emergency
1 medical technician specialist.
2 (3) "Local governmental unit" means a county, city, village,
3 charter township, or township.
4 (4) "Medical control" means supervising and coordinating
5 emergency medical services through a medical control authority,
6 as prescribed, adopted, and enforced through department-approved
7 protocols, within an emergency medical services system.
8 (5) "Medical control authority" means an organization
9 designated by the department under section 20910(1)(g) to provide
10 medical control.
11 (6) "Medical director" means a physician who is appointed to
12 that position by a medical control authority under
13 section 20918.
14 (7) "Medical first responder" means an individual who has met
15 the educational requirements of a department approved medical
16 first responder course and who is licensed to provide medical
17 first response life support as part of a medical first response
18 service or as a driver of an ambulance that provides basic life
19 support services only. Medical first responder does not include
20 a police officer solely because his or her police vehicle is
21 equipped with a defibrillator.
22 (8) "Medical first response life support" means patient care
23 that may include any care a medical first responder is qualified
24 to provide by medical first responder education that meets the
25 educational requirements established by the department under
26 section 20912 or is authorized to provide by the protocols
27 established by the local medical control authority under
1 section 20919 for a medical first responder.
2 (9) "Medical first response service" means a person licensed
3 by the department to respond under medical control to an
4 emergency scene with a medical first responder and equipment
5 required by the department before the arrival of an ambulance,
6 and includes a fire suppression agency only if it is dispatched
7 for medical first response life support. Medical first response
8 service does not include a law enforcement agency, as defined in
9 section 8 of 1968 PA 319, MCL 28.258, unless the law enforcement
10 agency holds itself out as a medical first response service and
11 the unit responding was dispatched to provide medical first
12 response life support.
13 (10) "Medical first response vehicle" means a motor vehicle
14 staffed by at least 1 medical first responder and meeting
15 equipment requirements of the department.