2023-21 Ordinance Amending City Code Chapter 53 Ambulance Service

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(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. (h) Proof of the completed training as required will be sent to the Decatur Fire Chief for each EMT covered herein. 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. The City Manager will determine the total number of ambulances required to operate in the city of Decatur. Section 5. That Chapter 53 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois, be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amended Section 16, so that Section 16 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 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 systemstem 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 received by the ambulance service from the dispatching agency, no less than ninety (90) percent of the time all calls received during each calendar month. (c) Any ambulance service licensed to operate within the City of Decatur shall provide to the Decatur Fire Chief or designee, a written quarterly report of response time performance. (d) At the reasonable request of the Fire Chief, an audit of response times provided by an ambulance service may be conducted. The cost of the audit will be charged to the ambulance service. Section 6. That Chapter 53 of the City Code of the City of Decatur, Illinois,be, and the same is hereby modified and amended by amended Section 19, so that Section 19 as so modified and amended, shall provide as follows: 19. MANNER OF DISPATCH AND CALLS FOR SERVICE. In the event there is more than one licensed ambulance service in the City of Decatur, the City's Fire Department shall determine the manner of dispatch utilizing a method to dispatch the closest ambulance to the call for service location. No ambulance service licensed by the City, or the personnel thereof, shall respond to a call for service directed to another such ambulance service unless requested so