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1 AN ACT regarding emergency medical services.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
5 Act is amended by changing Section 3.155 as follows:
6 (210 ILCS 50/3.155)
7 Sec. 3.155. General Provisions.
8 (a) Authority and responsibility for the EMS System
9 shall be vested in the EMS Resource Hospital, through the EMS
10 Medical Director or his designee.
11 (b) For an inter-hospital emergency or non-emergency
12 medical transport, in which the physician from the sending
13 hospital provides the EMS personnel with written medical
14 orders, such written medical orders cannot exceed the scope
15 of care which the EMS personnel are authorized to render
16 pursuant to this Act.
17 (c) For an inter-hospital emergency or non-emergency
18 medical transport of a patient who requires medical care
19 beyond the scope of care which the EMS personnel are
20 authorized to render pursuant to this Act, a qualified
21 physician, nurse, perfusionist, or respiratory therapist
22 familiar with the scope of care needed must accompany the
23 patient and the transferring hospital and physician shall
24 assume medical responsibility for that portion of the medical
25 care.
26 (d) No emergency medical services vehicles or personnel
27 from another State or nation may be utilized on a regular
28 basis to pick up and transport patients within this State
29 without first complying with this Act and all rules adopted
30 by the Department pursuant to this Act.
31 (e) This Act shall not prevent emergency medical
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1 services vehicles or personnel from another State or nation
2 from rendering requested assistance in this State in a
3 disaster situation, or operating from a location outside the
4 State and occasionally transporting patients into this State
5 for needed medical care. Except as provided in Section 31 of
6 this Act, this Act shall not provide immunity from liability
7 for such activities.
8 (f) Except as provided in subsection (e) of this
9 Section, no person or entity shall transport emergency or
10 non-emergency patients by ambulance, SEMSV, or medical
11 carrier without first complying with the provisions of this
12 Act and all rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
13 (g) Nothing in this Act or the rules adopted by the
14 Department under this Act shall be construed to authorize any
15 medical treatment to or transportation of any person who
16 objects on religious grounds.
17 (h) Patients, individuals who accompany a patient, and
18 emergency medical services personnel may not smoke while
19 inside an ambulance or SEMSV. The Department of Public
20 Health may impose a civil penalty on an individual who
21 violates this subsection in the amount of $100.
22 (Source: P.A. 89-177, eff. 7-19-95.)
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