Ohio Administrative Code
Title 4765 - State Board of Emergency Medical Services
Chapter 4765-14 - Trauma Triage
Section 4765-14-05 - Exceptions to mandatory transport

(A) It is medically necessary to transport the victim to another hospital for initial assessment and stabilization before transfer to an adult or pediatric trauma center;

(B) It is unsafe or medically inappropriate to transport the victim directly to an adult or pediatric trauma center due to adverse weather or ground conditions or excessive transport time;

(C) Transporting the victim to an adult or pediatric trauma center would cause a shortage of local emergency medical service resources;

(D) No appropriate adult or pediatric trauma center is able to receive and provide adult or pediatric trauma care to the trauma victim without undue delay;

(E) Before transport of a patient begins, the patient requests to be taken to a particular hospital that is not a trauma center or, if the patient is less than eighteen years of age or is not able to communicate, such a request is made by an adult member of the patient's family or a legal representative of the patient.