New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 18 - TRANSPORTATION AND HIGHWAYS
Chapter 3 - MOTOR CARRIER GENERAL PROVISIONS
Part 14 - AMBULANCE SERVICES
Section 18.3.14.20 - NON-EMERGENCY AND SCHEDULED AMBULANCE TRANSPORT SERVICE
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
An ambulance service may provide scheduled pre-hospital or inter-facility transport of patients, including physically or mentally impaired patients or non-ambulatory patients, who cannot be transported by common means of transportation and who require the attending care of qualified medical personnel. Vehicles that are capable of transporting gurneys, but are not certified ambulances, shall not transport recumbent patients requiring medical monitoring. An ambulance service providing such service shall:
A. transport patients in ambulances that meet the requirements of this rule; and
B. provide, at a minimum, one (1) EMT of the appropriate level for the transport and one qualified driver; the EMT shall be in the patient compartment attending the patient whenever a patient is being cared for or transported.
C. Stretcher vans; wheelchair vans: use; restrictions: A stretcher van may transport a person who:
D. A stretcher van or wheelchair van shall not transport a person who: