For City Council Meeting [June 8, 2021]
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
APPROVAL: Sean Grayson, Acting City Manager
FROM: Brian Park, Interim Fire Chief
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Request City Council to Approve a Onetime Retro Payment to Inland Counties Emergency Medical Agencies (ICEMA) in the Amount of $19,200 for Accumulated Medical Control Fees and Medical Compliance Fees Associated with our Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Apparatus.
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BACKGROUND:
As part of the Rialto Fire Department's (RFD) first responder and ambulance transport medical services, the Department recognizes ICEMA and ICEMA's medical director as the EMS medical authority pursuant to the EMS Act.
ANALYSIS/DISCUSSION:
The California Health and Safety Code, Division 25, Chapter 2, Section 1798 states "The medical direction and management of an emergency medical services system shall be under the medical control of the medical director of the local EMS agency. This medical control shall be maintained in accordance with standards for medical control established by the authority". ICEMA, as the local medical authority has asserted its right to invoice what it determines as a just and reasonable sum for its services. The Fire Department anticipates an annual medical control fee and medical compliance fees with sums determined by ICEMA.
The Fire Department in conjunction with the city attorney have agreed to ICEMA's assertion of medical control along with its invoice request of $19,200 for past services retro back to 2017-18 pertaining to medial control and medical inspections of our Advanced Life Support (ALS) units. The local medical authority establishes medical control by instituting local EMS patient care policies and protocols. Local medial authority also establishes a certified drug and equipment list that must be maintained by any agency practicing EMS services within the Local Emergency Medical Services Age...
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