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29A.79 - EMERGENCY HELICOPTER AMBULANCE.

        29A.79  EMERGENCY HELICOPTER AMBULANCE.
         The adjutant general shall develop a plan within the Iowa national
      guard for an emergency helicopter ambulance service to transport
      persons who require emergency medical treatment or require emergency
      transfer between hospitals and to transport emergency medical
      supplies, equipment or personnel.
         The Iowa national guard shall be requested to provide the
      emergency helicopter ambulance service from its available staffed
      helicopters when the plan is implemented on order of the governor at
      the request of the state patrol, or the administrative heads of the
      hospitals located in Iowa, unless the Iowa national guard does not
      have a staffed helicopter available or is in active service under the
      armed forces of the United States.
         The adjutant general shall establish policies and procedures to
      carry out the provisions of this section.  The policies and
      procedures shall provide that the emergency helicopter ambulance
      service shall be coordinated and supplemental to, and not competitive
      with conventional ambulance services.  In determining whether an
      emergency exists the policies and procedures shall give reasonable
      consideration to the risk of death or permanent injury due to delayed
      treatment resulting from remoteness of an area from any hospital, the
      absence or unavailability of conventional ambulance services, and the
      distance to be traveled in a transfer between hospitals.  

         Section History: Early Form

         [C73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 29A.79] 

         Section History: Recent Form

         98 Acts, ch 1074, § 2; 2005 Acts, ch 35, §31