[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Pleasantville 5-18-1998 by Ord. No. 10-1998. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
It is the purpose of the chapter to establish
a professional ambulance service in the City of Pleasantville which
will provide competent, responsive and safe medical transportation
services for the residents and visitors of the city. Such services
are to be provided on an emergency basis as well as a general medical
transportation basis. This chapter establishes the Pleasantville EMS
within the Pleasantville Fire Department.
There is hereby established in the City of Pleasantville
the Pleasantville EMS, which shall be administered and managed through
and be a part of the Pleasantville Fire Department under the direction
of the Chief of the Pleasantville Fire Department. The operation of
the ambulance services provided by the Pleasantville EMS will be by
the personnel of the Pleasantville Fire Department. The establishment
of the Pleasantville EMS shall be pursuant to and in accordance with
the regulations of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
Services and shall be licensed in Department of Health and Senior
Services and shall be licensed in accordance with such regulations
as administered by the Office of Emergency Medical Services for licensure
of mobility assistance vehicle services and ambulance services.
The Pleasantville EMS will provide for paid
ambulance services in accordance with the provisions of its licensure
from the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services. Billing
for services provided by the Pleasantville EMS may be conducted through
an independent third party billing contractor as may be retained from
time to time by the City Council by resolution. Funds received from
such billing services shall be paid into the general account of the
City of Pleasantville. The collection of such fees and the coordination
between the city and any third-party independent billing contractor
shall be overseen and monitored jointly by the Chief Financial Officer
of the City of Pleasantville and the Fire Chief.
[Added 4-2-2007 by Ord. No. 13-2007;
amended 4-20-2009 by Ord. No. 10-2009]
The fee schedule for ambulance services as provided
here within by the City of Pleasantville Fire Department/EMS is as
follows:
A.
Basic EMS for treatment on scene and while en route
to hospital: $625.
B.
Mileage fee per mile for transportation to hospital:
$14.
C.
"Light rescue" is defined as maintaining battery issues,
fluid cleanup, stabilization of vehicles, use of hand tools, hazard
control, and other scene-related light rescue operations: $200.
D.
"Medium rescue" is defined as operations that include
the use of power tools and hydraulic rescue tools to perform activities
such as opening or removing doors to provide access to patients as
well as stabilizing vehicles and performing hazardous assessments:
$450.
E.
"Heavy rescue" is defined as operations that include
any technical rescue procedures, including but not, limited to water
and ice rescue, rope rescue, confined space rescue, high angle rescue,
trench rescue or structural collapse rescue. Heavy rescue also includes
motor vehicle rescue that includes the use of power tools and hydraulic
tools to perform operations such as partial or full roof removal,
front/dash displacement, third door access, and separating vehicles
from one another: $800.
