It is the purpose of this subchapter:
(A) To establish a regulated prehospital emergency medical services and medical transportation system which can provide quality clinical care with performance measures and standards, with the goal of facilitating the best possible outcomes for each patient;
(B) To establish a mobile integrated healthcare program with effective medical direction and quality assurance and review;
(C) To form an administrative agency to administer and operate the prehospital emergency medical services and medical transportation system in a service area comprised of member jurisdictions and to administer and operate the mobile integrated healthcare program;
(D) To designate the administrative agency as the sole-provider of emergency and non-emergency ambulance service within this jurisdiction to maintain consistent, high-quality service while controlling costs through efficiencies and economies of scale;
(E) To provide for effective medical direction by establishing a multi-jurisdictional Emergency Physicians Advisory Board to advise the administrative agency's Board and, through the agency's office of the medical director, to oversee and regulate all clinical aspects of prehospital emergency medical services, the administrative agency's mobile integrated healthcare program, and medical transportation which affect patient care in the service area; and
(F) To provide for effective coordination and communication between first responder agencies in the service area, the Emergency Physicians Advisory Board, and the Board of the Administrative Agency by establishing a multi-jurisdictional First Responder Advisory Board.
(Ord. 258, passed 8-14-2003; Ord. 394, passed 1-12-2017)