RESOLUTION NO. 100603
Opposing the proposed
promulgation of state regulations that establish emergency medical system
protocols.
WHEREAS, the
City has an emergency medical system for the provision of an advanced life
support ambulance transport system and a basic life support emergency responder
service; and
WHEREAS, the Emergency
Medical Services Coordinating Committee (EMSCC), the Medical Director and the Fire
Department are responsible for the City’s emergency medical system; and
WHEREAS, the
City establishes emergency medical system protocols though the EMSCC upon the
recommendation of the Medical Director after the Director’s consultation with
the Emergency Physicians Advisory Board (EPAB); and,
WHEREAS, the
City has emergency medical system protocols for patients suffering heart
attacks including STEMI (ST elevation myocardial infarction) and stroke
patients; and
WHEREAS, the
City believes that to best protect the safety and health of its citizens it is
important that it have full authority and local control over all segments of
patient care in its emergency medical services system, which includes the
promulgation of emergency medical system protocols; and,
WHEREAS, the
State through the Department of Health and Senior Services is proposing
regulations that would supersede certain of the City’s emergency medical system
protocols, including proposed regulations for the transport of STEMI and stroke
patients and the establishment of a community based or regional plan for
emergency medical services for trauma, STEMI or stroke; and
WHEREAS, the
City is concerned that the State’s promulgation of regulations establishing
emergency medical system protocols seriously interferes with the City’s
authority over, and local control of, its emergency medical system; NOW,
THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED
BY THE COUNCIL OF KANSAS CITY:
That the City
opposes the promulgation of state regulations that would establish protocols
superseding any of the City’s emergency medical system protocols. The City
Manager is instructed to direct appropriate city staff and the City’s state
lobbyist to take what action is deemed necessary to oppose any such proposed
regulations.
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