NJ Volunteer EMS
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Are you talking about 911 or transport?
Not sure about NJ, but in NY, you have to have a Certificate of Need to operate and that defines your area. If my CON was for Ardsley, and somebody called us for a non-emergent transport, then I can do the transport as long as either the origin or destination is in Ardsley. I wouldn't need Eastchester's permission to pick-up a Pt from Eastchester where the destination is Ardsley with an Ardsley-based CON.
Not sure about NJ, but in NY, you have to have a Certificate of Need to operate and that defines your area. If my CON was for Ardsley, and somebody called us for a non-emergent transport, then I can do the transport as long as either the origin or destination is in Ardsley. I wouldn't need Eastchester's permission to pick-up a Pt from Eastchester where the destination is Ardsley with an Ardsley-based CON.
NOTHING regulates volunteer EMS in NJ, so the answer is local. Ask around wherever you are in NJ.
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I'm sorry, but huh?????
So if you are in town A, and a resident in town B directly dials you to take them to the hospital, can you do it?
The simple answer is, you can take any call in any town you want, as long as it is a direct request. Paid commercial transport companies do this all the time (lights and sirens to pick up people in nursing homes, etc). Whether or not an agency is volunteer has nothing to do with it.
Some agencies will, as a courtesy, notify the town you are responding you that you are taking a job, so they don't wonder why you are going lights and sirens through their town to a job in their town.
So if you are in town A, and a resident in town B directly dials you to take them to the hospital, can you do it?
The simple answer is, you can take any call in any town you want, as long as it is a direct request. Paid commercial transport companies do this all the time (lights and sirens to pick up people in nursing homes, etc). Whether or not an agency is volunteer has nothing to do with it.
Some agencies will, as a courtesy, notify the town you are responding you that you are taking a job, so they don't wonder why you are going lights and sirens through their town to a job in their town.