2018-36 Amending City Code Chapter 53 Ambulance Service

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11. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. Each licensed ambulance service operating within the City of Decatur shall provide a minimum of four Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technicians on duty at all times with an additional two such Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technicians on immediate reserve. 12. EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIAN'S REQUIREMENTS. Each Illinois licensed Emergency Medical Technician who is functioning at any EMT level with the ambulance must: (a) Be affiliated with the local or other EMS Resource Hospital and be approved to function within the EMS System which serves the City and be approved to function under the supervision of the EMS Resource Hospital's EMS Project Medical Director. (Amended, Ordinance No. 98-06, February 16, 1998). (b) Be trained annually on the Decatur Fire Department's Incident Command System with proof of such initial training provided to the Decatur Fire Chief by August 7, 2019 and annually thereafter. (c) Be trained in Hazardous Material Awareness by August 7, 2019. (d) Be trained in Technical Rescue Awareness by August 7, 2019. (e) Be trained to the National Incident Management System (NIMS) 100 and 700 level within 90 days of their date of hire. (f) Be trained and certified under the NIMS compliant with or equivalent to NIMS 100, 200, 300, 400, 700, and 800 if acting in a management or supervisory role as defined in NIMS laws, rules and regulations. (g) Be trained in International Trauma Life Support. 13. CONTINUOUS OPERATION. Each licensed ambulance service shall be operated continuously at all hours of every day and shall be so constituted as to provide on continuous duty two Mobile Intensive Care Units equipped and staffed so as to be capable of performing Advanced Life Support. 14. INCIDENT COMMAND. The Fire Chief, or his or her designee, shall be in command of all incidents within the City of Decatur. The ambulance service shall assimilate into the incident command system and operate with the Medical Division under the medical group. The ambulance service shall maintain authority and responsibility on all patient care matters and decisions. 15. RECORDS. Each ambulance service licensed by the City shall keep such adequate records of its equipment and the maintenance thereof, a log of calls and responses, and records regarding its personnel, as the Decatur Fire Chief may direct. 16. RESPONSE TIME PERFORMANCE. Each ambulance service licensed to operate within the City of Decatur shall meet specific response criteria. Response times shall be calculated from the hour, minute, and second the call is given by the dispatching agency to the ambulance service, to the hour, minute, and second the ambulance service's ALS transport unit arrives on scene. Each incident will be counted as a single response regardless of the number of units that respond. (a) The ALS ambulance must arrive at the scene of all calls categorized as class B, C, D, or E as defined by the emergency medical dispatch system within eight(8)minutes of the time the call was received by the ambulance service from the dispatch agency, no less than ninety (90) percent of the time for all calls received during the calendar month. (b) All non-code responses to calls categorized as class A or O as defined by the emergency medical dispatch system shall arrive on scene within twelve (12) minutes of the time the call was