(a) The Emergency Medical Services Authority shall review a local EMS agency’s proposed community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program using procedures consistent with Section 1797.105 and review the local EMS agency’s program protocols in order to ensure compliance with the statewide minimum protocols developed under Section 1832.
(b) The authority may impose conditions as part of the approval of a community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program that the local EMS agency is required to incorporate into its program to achieve consistency with the authority’s regulations and the provisions of this chapter.
(c) The authority shall approve or deny the proposed community paramedicine or triage to alternate destination program no later than six months after it is submitted by the local EMS agency.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 138, Sec. 4. (AB 1544) Effective January 1, 2021. Repealed as of January 1, 2024, pursuant to Section 1857.)