Montana Code 50-6-322. Staffing — nonemergency ambulance transports — transports in rural areas
50-6-322. Staffing — nonemergency ambulance transports — transports in rural areas. An emergency medical service that is staffed primarily by volunteer emergency care providers may staff an ambulance with one emergency care provider licensed at an emergency medical technician-basic level or higher and one driver trained in the operation of emergency vehicles for the following types of responses:
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-6-322
- Ambulance: means a privately or publicly owned motor vehicle or aircraft that is maintained and used for the transportation of patients. See Montana Code 50-6-302
- Emergency medical service: means an out-of-hospital health care treatment service or interfacility emergency medical transportation provided by an ambulance or nontransporting medical unit that is licensed by the department to provide out-of-hospital health care treatment services or interfacility emergency medical transportation, including community-integrated health care. See Montana Code 50-6-302
- Patient: means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. See Montana Code 50-6-302
(1)nonemergency ambulance transports;
(2)emergency medical service provided by an ambulance company located in a county with a population of fewer than 20,000 residents; and
(3)emergency medical service provided by an ambulance company located in a county with a population of 20,000 residents or more if the ambulance company is transporting a patient from a community within that county that has a population of 1,500 residents or less to the nearest health care facility that is able to meet the patient’s medical needs.