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Regular Session, 2014 ENROLLED
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON NO. 47
BY SENATOR HEITMEIER
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTI ON
To urge and request the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the feasibility,
desirability, and practicality of alternative transportation sites (i.e. urgent care
clinics) for patients who access emergency medical services via the 911 system and
the use of ambulance service providers and suppliers to assist with training and
management of this population.
WHEREAS, the University of California, Davis, Institute for Population Health
Improvement indicates the expansion of a community paramedicine program using the assets
and resources of the ambulance service industry ensures that expensive emergency care
resources are optimally utilized; and
WHEREAS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation commissioned a
study with an ambulance group in Reno, Nevada, in 2012 to explore transporting patients
who do not present an emergent condition at the time of transport to an alternative
destination site rather than an emergency room involving reimbursement through the
Medicare program; and
WHEREAS, several published studies by ambulance services in Texas, Minnesota,
and Pennsylvania indicate that the use of paramedics as mobile healthcare practitioners to
manage and redirect nonemergency 911 usage has resulted in significant savings for
taxbased entities.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Legislature of Louisiana does hereby
urge and request the Department of Health and Hospitals to study the feasibility, desirability,
and practicality of alternative transportation sites (i.e. urgent care clinics) for patients who
access emergency medical services via the 911 system and the use of ambulance service
providers and suppliers to assist with training and management of this population.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Department of Health and Hospitals submit
its findings in a report to the Senate and House committees on health and welfare no later
than January 1, 2015. SCR NO. 47 ENROLLED
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the
secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES