Sec. 2. The commission shall establish standards for persons required to be certified or licensed by the commission to provide emergency medical services. To be certified or licensed, a person must meet the following minimum requirements:
(1) The personnel certified or licensed under this chapter must do the following:
(A) Meet the standards for education and training established by the commission by rule.
(B) Successfully complete a basic or an inservice course of education and training on sudden infant death syndrome that is certified by the commission in conjunction with the state health commissioner.
(C) Successfully complete a basic or an inservice course of education and training on autism that is certified by the commission.
(D) Successfully complete a research based training program concerning suicide assessment, treatment, and management that is:
(i) demonstrated to be an effective or promising program; and
(ii) recommended by the Indiana Suicide Prevention Network Advisory Council.
(2) Ambulances to be used must conform with the requirements of the commission and must either be:
(A) covered by insurance issued by a company licensed to do business in Indiana in the amounts and under the terms required in rules adopted by the commission; or
(B) owned by a governmental entity covered under IC 34-13-3.
(3) Emergency ambulance service shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted by the commission. However, the rules adopted under this chapter may not prohibit the dispatch of an ambulance to aid an emergency patient because an emergency medical technician is not immediately available to staff the ambulance.
(4) Ambulances must be equipped with a system of emergency medical communications approved by the commission. The emergency medical communication system must properly integrate and coordinate appropriate local and state emergency communications systems and reasonably available area emergency medical facilities with the general public's need for emergency medical services.
(5) Emergency medical communications shall be provided in accordance with rules adopted by the commission.
(6) A nontransporting emergency medical services vehicle must conform with the commission's requirements.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-39-9(b).]
As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.14. Amended by P.L.22-1994, SEC.4; P.L.186-1995, SEC.9; P.L.1-1998, SEC.117; P.L.22-2005, SEC.19; P.L.71-2008, SEC.1; P.L.77-2012, SEC.23; P.L.254-2017, SEC.4; P.L.56-2018, SEC.2.
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