Emergency patient definition

Emergency patient means an individual who is transported to an organized emergency department located in and operated by a hospital licensed under this article or a facility other than a hospital that is routinely available for the general care of medical patients.
Emergency patient means an individual who is acutely ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless and who requires emergency care. The term includes an individual who requires transportation on a litter or cot or is transported in a vehicle certified as an ambulance under IC 16-31-3.
Emergency patient means an individual with a physical or mental condition that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity, including, but not limited to, pain such that a prudent layperson, possessing average knowledge of health and medicine, could reasonably expect to result in 1 or all of the following:

Examples of Emergency patient in a sentence

  • Employees are required to have successfully completed the Certificate III in Non- Emergency Patient Transport or equivalent and the induction and orientation program during the first six months.

  • Our Emergency Patient Pathway work has recently delivered significant improvements and we now achieve the 4 hour target consistently.

  • A compatible Emergency Patient Care Reporting (EPCR) system between the Contractor and PFA is preferred.

  • The Contractor shall provide services in line with the Trust’s Service Specification outlined below: Non Emergency Patient Transport Service Service Overview The Agreement is for the supply of a fully managed non-emergency patient transportation Services for the Trust, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, and 365 days per year.


More Definitions of Emergency patient

Emergency patient means that term as defined in section 20904.
Emergency patient means an individual who is ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is at risk of needing medical care during transportation by stretcher to or from a health care facility.
Emergency patient means an individual whose
Emergency patient means a person requiring emergency medical care who is treated and/or transported by an authorized ambulance service provider.
Emergency patient means an individual suffering, or believed to be suffering, from a medical emergency as defined in Appendix
Emergency patient means an individual with a
Emergency patient means an individual who is ill, injured, or otherwise incapacitated and is at