Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R426 - Population Health, Emergency Medical Services
Rule R426-9 - Specialty Care Systems Facility Designations
Section R426-9-1000 - Resource Hospital Minimum Designation Requirements

(1) Be licensed in Utah or another state as a general acute hospital or be a Veteran's Administration hospital operating in Utah;

(2) Have the ability to communicate with other EMS providers operating in the area;

(3) Provide on-line medical control for all pre-hospital EMS providers who request assistance for patient care, 24 hours-a-day, seven days a week;

(4) Create and abide by written pre-hospital emergency patient care protocols for use in providing on-line medical control for pre-hospital EMS providers;

(5) Train new staff on the protocols before the new staff is permitted to provide on-line medical control and annually review protocols with physician and nursing staff;

(6) Annually provide in-service training on the protocols to all physicians and nurses who provide on-line medical control;

(7) Make the protocols immediately available to staff for reference;

(8) Provide on-line medical control which shall include:

(9) Implement a quality improvement process which shall include:

(10) Identify a coordinator for the pre-hospital quality improvement process;

(11) Cooperate with the pre-hospital EMS providers' offline medical directors in the quality review process, including granting access to hospital medical records of patients served by the particular pre-hospital EMS provider;

(12) Participate in local and regional forums for performance improvement; and

(13) Assist the Department in evaluating EMS system effectiveness by submitting to the Department, in an electronic format quarterly data specified by the Department.

(14) Designated Trauma Centers are deemed to meet the Resource Hospital standards and are exempt from requirements outlined in this section.

(15) The resource hospital designation and re-designation shall be for a period of three years.