N.Y. Public Health Law Section 3005-A
Staffing standards

  • ambulance services and advanced life support first response services

1.

The following staffing standards shall be in effect unless otherwise provided by this section:

(a)

effective January first, nineteen hundred ninety-seven the minimum staffing standard for a registered ambulance service shall be a certified first responder with the patient;

(b)

effective January first, two thousand, the minimum staffing standard for a voluntary ambulance service shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient;

(c)

the minimum staffing standard for all other ambulance services shall be an emergency medical technician with the patient; and

(d)

the minimum staffing standard for an advanced life support first response service shall be an advanced emergency medical technician with the patient. Circumstances permitting other than advanced life support care by an advanced life support first response service may be established by rule by the state council, subject to the approval of the commissioner.

2.

Any service granted an exemption by the regional council pursuant to subdivision five-a of § 3003 (Regional emergency medical services councils)section three thousand three of this article shall be subject to the standards and terms of the exemption.

3.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the effective date of the standards established by this section shall be delayed by one year for each fiscal year, prior to January first, two thousand, in which the amounts appropriated are less than that which would have been expended pursuant to the provisions of State Finance Law § 97-Q (New York state emergency medical services training account)section ninety-seven-q of the state finance law.

Source: Section 3005-A — Staffing standards; ambulance services and advanced life support first response services, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/PBH/3005-A (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Apr. 13, 2024).

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Declaration of policy and statement of purpose 3000–A
Emergency medical treatment 3000–B
Automated external defibrillators: Public access providers 3000–C
Epinephrine auto-injector devices 3000–D
Availability of resuscitation equipment in certain public places 3000–E
Rescue inhaler treatment devices 3000–F
Automated external defibrillator 3001
Definitions 3002
New York state emergency medical services council 3002–A
State emergency medical advisory committee 3003
Regional emergency medical services councils 3003–A
EMS program agencies 3003–B
Availability of ambulance service that provides transportation by aircraft to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer bloo... 3004
Emergency medical services system and agency performance standards 3004–A
Regional emergency medical advisory committees 3005
Ambulance service certificates 3005–A
Staffing standards 3005–B
Emergency medical technician five year re-certification demonstration program 3006
Quality improvement program 3006–A
Patient privacy 3007
Notice of alternative destination 3008
Applications for determinations of public need 3009
Continuation of existing services 3010
Area of operation 3011
Powers and duties of the department and the commissioner 3012
Enforcement 3013
Immunity from liability 3014
Construction 3015
Separability 3016
Continuance of rules and regulations 3017
Emergency medical service, Suffolk county 3018
Community-based paramedicine demonstration program 3020
Recruitment and retention 3030
Advanced life support services 3031
Advanced life support system 3032
State emergency medical services task force 3033
Rules and regulations 3034
Rules and regulations
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Accessed:
Apr. 13, 2024

Last modified:
Sep. 22, 2014

§ 3005-A’s source at nysenate​.gov

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