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

Universal Citation: 18 NM Admin Code 18.3.14.20

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:

(1) Needs routine transportation to or from a medical appointment or service if that person is convalescent or otherwise non-ambulatory and does not require medical monitoring en route to the destination, facility, or aid, care or treatment during transport.

(2) Is an inpatient at a facility and needs transportation to another hospital for diagnostic tests if that person's physician authorizes the use of a stretcher van.

D. A stretcher van or wheelchair van shall not transport a person who:

(1) Is being administered intravenous fluids.

(2) Needs oxygen unless that person's physician has prescribed oxygen as a self-administered therapy.

(3) Needs suctioning.

(4) Demonstrates signs of a visible injury and has not yet been evaluated by a physician.

(5) Is experiencing an acute condition or the exacerbation of a chronic condition.

(6) Needs to be transported from one hospital to another hospital if the destination hospital is the same level or a higher level as the hospital of origin.

(7) Is being medically monitored at the sending facility and will continue to be medically monitored at the destination facility.

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