37.104.109    BASIC LIFE SUPPORT SERVICE LICENSING

(1) An ambulance service or nontransporting medical unit (NTU) capable of providing service only at the basic life support level will be licensed at the basic life support level.

(a) An ambulance service or NTU that provides advanced life support with ECP-AEMT equivalent or ECP paramedic equivalent providers, but cannot reasonably provide it 24 hours per day, seven days per week due to limited personnel, will receive a basic life support license with authorization for limited ALS.

(b) An ambulance service or NTU that provides advanced life support with ECP-EMT with endorsements will receive a basic life support license with authorization for limited ALS.

(2) Ambulance services or NTUs requesting authorization for (1)(a) or (b) must:

(a) request approval for each ALS level and endorsement the service plans to provide; and

(b) submit documentation of the level and endorsement(s) each ECP is authorized by the service medical director to provide.

History: 50-6-323, MCA; IMP, 50-6-323, MCA; NEW, 2005 MAR p. 2681, Eff. 12/23/05; AMD, 2006 MAR p. 2420, Eff. 10/6/06; AMD, 2010 MAR p. 535, Eff. 2/26/10; AMD, 2014 MAR p. 122, Eff. 1/17/14.