§ 1029.21. Receiving facilities.
(a) General requirements. A receiving facility shall include a fixed location, with an organized emergency department, including a physician educated to manage cardiac, trauma, pediatric, obstetrics, medical behavioral and all-hazards emergencies. A physician who satisfies these requirements shall be present in the facility and available to the emergency department 24 hours-a-day, 7 days-a-week.
(b) Patients with special needs. Patients with special needs, particularly those with time-sensitive illnesses, who need to be transported to a receiving facility shall be transported to a specialty receiving facility consistent with the Statewide EMS protocols.
(c) Transports to receiving facilities. Unless directed otherwise by a medical command physician, if patient transport by ambulance is required for additional care that has not been prearranged, an ambulance must transport the patient to a receiving facility or other facility as the Department has designated in the Statewide EMS protocols.
(d) Confirmation of receiving patient. When a patient has been transported to a receiving facility, the receiving facility shall acknowledge in writing that it has received the patient if the transporting ambulance crew requests that acknowledgement.
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