Sec. 4. (a) The commission may establish a mobile integration healthcare grant to assist communities in the development and implementation of a mobile integrated healthcare program that has been approved by the commission under this chapter.

     (b) The commission may do the following:

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  • mobile integrated healthcare: means community based health care in which paramedics and emergency medical technicians employed by an emergency medical services provider agency function outside of customary emergency response and transport to do the following:

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(1) Administer the grant.

(2) Create a grant application for the grant.

(3) Develop a process for receiving and evaluating grant applications.

(4) Establish eligibility requirements for the grant.

(5) Select recipients of the grant and distribute the funds for an awarded grant.

     (c) The commission may only award a grant under this section to an emergency medical services provider agency that is operated by a:

(1) city;

(2) town; or

(3) township.

As added by P.L.100-2019, SEC.4. Amended by P.L.156-2020, SEC.67.