Terms Used In New York Laws > Public Health > Article 30-B - Emergency Medical, Trauma and Disaster Care

• Aeromedical transport: means prehospital transport or interfacility transfer conducted in rotary wing or fixed wing aircraft. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Critically ill or injured: means at high risk of dying from illnesses or injuries. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Disaster preparedness: means the state of readiness necessary to respond to natural or man-made disasters, including but not limited to biologic, nuclear, incendiary, chemical, and explosive disasters. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Emergency department: means a hospital department consisting of staff, facilities, and resources to provide emergency medical care for large numbers of emergency patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Emergency medical care: means the initial management, treatment, and transfer of suddenly ill or injured patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Emergency service: means a hospital department consisting of staff, facilities, and resources to provide emergency medical care for small numbers of emergency patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Interfacility transfer: means emergency ambulance transport from, to, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities, conducted in accordance with article thirty of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Interoperability: means the capacity of all emergency medical, trauma care, and disaster preparedness response systems to collaborate and communicate during an emergency, trauma, or disaster response. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Prehospital transport: means emergency ambulance transport from the scene of a sudden illness or injury requiring emergency medical care or trauma care to a general hospital or other health care facility, conducted in accordance with article thirty of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Regional emergency medical advisory committee: means a regional emergency medical advisory committee established by section three thousand four-a of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Regional emergency medical services council: means a regional emergency medical services council established by section three thousand three of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Regional trauma advisory committee: means a regional trauma advisory committee continued or established by this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• State emergency medical advisory committee: means the state emergency medical advisory committee established by section three thousand two-a of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• State emergency medical services council: means the state emergency medical services council established by section three thousand two of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• State hospital review and planning council: means the state hospital review and planning council established by section twenty-nine hundred four of this chapter. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• State trauma advisory committee: means the state trauma advisory committee continued by this article. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Transport system: means an organized health care and transportation system to provide prehospital transport and interfacility transfer to critically ill or injured patients. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Trauma care: means health care provided to patients at high risk of death or disability from multiple and severe injuries. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Trauma center: means a facility capable of providing definitive trauma care. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Trauma station: means a facility capable of providing sustentative trauma care followed by expeditious transfer to a trauma center. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062
• Trauma system: means an organized health care system to provide trauma care in, or en route to, from, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities. See N.Y. Public Health Law 3062