26:2K-7. Definitions

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1. As used in this act:

a. "Advanced life support" means an advanced level of emergency medical care, including specialty care transport, which includes basic life support functions and the use of procedures, medications, and equipment established by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's National EMS Scope of Practice Model for paramedics, except for any provisions of the National EMS Scope of Practice Model expressly excluded by the commissioner in rules or regulations, and any other such procedures, medications, and equipment as set forth in section 6 of P.L.1984, c.146 (C.26:2K-12) or as otherwise authorized in rules or regulations promulgated by the commissioner;

b. "Board of Medical Examiners" means the State Board of Medical Examiners;

c. "Board of Nursing" means the New Jersey Board of Nursing;

d. "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of Health;

e. "Department" means the Department of Health;

f. "Emergency department" means a program in a hospital staffed 24 hours a day by a licensed physician trained in emergency medicine;

g. "Specialty care transport" means services that are above basic life support services rendered to patients before and during transportation between licensed facilities, during retrieval from those facilities, and upon arrival within those facilities;

h. "Mobile intensive care paramedic" means a person trained in advanced life support services and licensed by the commissioner to render advanced life support services as part of a mobile intensive care unit or as otherwise provided in section 4 of P.L.1984, c.146 (C.26:2K-10);

i. "Mobile intensive care unit" means a specialized emergency medical service unit that is staffed in accordance with paragraph

(2)of subsection a. of section 6 of P.L.1984, c.146 (C.26:2K-12) and operated for the provision of advanced life support services under the direction of an authorized hospital;

j. "Pre-hospital care" means those emergency medical services rendered by mobile intensive care units to emergency patients before and during transportation to emergency treatment facilities, and upon arrival within those facilities.

k. "Volunteer paramedic unit" means an operational subunit within a mobile intensive care unit that is exclusively staffed by at least two volunteer paramedics with access to any vehicle, including a personal vehicle.

l. "Agency EMS medical director" means a physician licensed in this State who is certified in emergency medicine or emergency medical services, or both, and is responsible for the medical oversight of a hospital mobile intensive care program.

m. "Mobile integrated health" means health care services delivered with the approval of the Department of Health to patients outside of a hospital setting, using mobile resources, and employing team-based and patient-centered care.

L.1984, c. 146, s. 1; amended 2021, c.480, s.1; 2022, c.118, s.1.