Emergency medical services: nonstandard patient offload time.

Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop a statewide standard methodology for the calculation and reporting of ambulance patient offload time, as defined, by a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency. Existing law authorizes a local EMS agency to adopt policies and procedures to calculate and report ambulance patient offload time. Existing law requires a local EMS agency that adopts policies and procedures for calculating and reporting ambulance patient offload time to establish criteria for the reporting of, and quality assurance followup for, a nonstandard patient offload time, as defined. This bill would require the authority, on or before July 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature the information reported by the local EMS agencies regarding nonstandard patient offload times. The bill would require the report to include any local EMS associated costs attributed to the nonstandard patient offload times.