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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 30.03.06.02" title_num="30" subtitle_num="03" chapter_num="06" heading="Base Stations in General.">
  <text>An EMS base station designated by MIEMSS shall:</text>
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Be a unit of a licensed hospital;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Operate 24 hours a day;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Have communications equipment as required by MIEMSS to provide necessary communications with ambulances and MIEMSS;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>In collaboration with MIEMSS, maintain all MIEMSS required communications equipment in working order, including:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>EMRC Radio with voice recorder; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Demstel Telephone, where deployed;</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Monitor and provide timely responses to MEMRAD;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E-1.">
    <text>Provide admission/discharge/transfer messages to MIEMSS through the State-Designated Health Information Exchange;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="F.">
    <text>Develop and implement a process to ensure utilization of State standardized and approved quality improvement/quality review tools and retain reviewed records for 5 years;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="G.">
    <text>Have a designated EMS space with computer, and internet connectivity suitable for EMS provider eMEDS® reporting;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="H.">
    <text>Participate in and provide clinical sites for training EMS personnel under a current memorandum of understanding with one or more EMS academies, educational institutions, or EMS Operational Programs, and maintain documentation of EMS participation;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="I.">
    <text>Receive from the EMS personnel at time of hand off either the completed eMEDS® report on the Hospital Dashboard or MIEMSS standardized and approved short form;</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="J.">
    <text>Include in the patient’s hospital medical record the downloaded eMEDS® patient care report forms from the eMEDS® Hospital Dashboard /Hub and, when used, the MIEMSS standardized and approved short forms; and</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="K.">
    <text>Develop and implement a process for linking the MIEMSS-approved Prehospital Consultation/Interventions Radio Report Forms to the radio consult and incorporation into the hospital patient medical record.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>