New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 41 - ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT SERVICES; MOBILE INTENSIVE CARE PROGRAMS, SPECIALTY CARE TRANSPORT SERVICES AND AIR MEDICAL SERVICES
Subchapter 9 - SPECIFIC MOBILE INTENSIVE CARE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS
Section 8:41-9.2 - Certificate of need requirements and patient restrictions
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) An acute care hospital shall not be issued a license to operate a mobile intensive care program unless approval has first been granted by the Department's Certificate of Need Program. Following approval by the Certificate of Need Program, an acute care hospital desiring to operate a mobile intensive care program shall make application in accordance with the process for licensure set forth in this chapter.
(b) The terms and conditions set forth in the certificate of need, and any subsequent conditions, shall be binding upon the mobile intensive care program. Failure to comply with any such conditions shall be deemed cause for action against the mobile intensive care program.
(c) Except as provided for at 8:41-9.16(c), a mobile intensive care program shall not utilize its MICUs to provide advanced life support care in any geographical area of the State for which it does not hold certificate of need approval to do so.
(d) MICUs may be utilized to provide pre-hospital basic or advanced life support emergency medical care. Except as provided for at 8:41-9.16(b), a MICU shall not be utilized to transport patients unless the mobile intensive care program has been granted prior and specific approval, pursuant to the terms of its original certificate of need, to utilize its vehicles as transport vehicles. Under no circumstances shall a MICU be utilized to provide ALS inter-facility transfers.
(e) A mobile intensive care program shall not refuse, or fail to respond to, an emergency call or refuse or fail to provide emergency treatment to any person because of that person's race, sex, creed, national origin, sexual preference, age, disability, medical condition or ability to pay.