It is the purpose of this uniform EMS subchapter to:
(A) Establish a regulated ambulance service system which can provide clinical quality of care, with reasonable, reliable response time standards, and with the goal of furnishing the best possible chance of survival, without disability or preventable complication, to each ambulance patient.
(B) Establish a sole-provider ambulance system, because it is unreasonable to have unnecessarily high rates and/or public subsidy to make needed improvements to ambulance service in the service area, when a more efficiently designed system can achieve the same results at lower cost. The most efficient design to achieve the goals of high-quality service, at the lowest cost, consistent with the quality of care required, is the implementation of the system described herein.
(C) Provide a method to develop specific performance standards, adequate review, and either continuation of service or an appropriate procedure to obtain alternate proposals from other providers.
(D) To provide more effective medical oversight by recognizing a multi-jurisdictional Medical Control Board of licensed physicians expert in emergency medicine and related specialties as the entity empowered hereunder to oversee and regulate all clinical aspects of the emergency medical system which affect patient care within this jurisdiction.
(Ord. 450, passed 5-9-95)