5.48B.010 Purpose.

It is the purpose of this chapter:

(1)    To adopt oversight and regulatory standards for the provision of ambulance and emergency medical services consistent with the terms of an ambulance contract negotiated by Vancouver;

(2)    To promote state-of-the-art clinical quality of EMS care with reasonable, reliable response-time standards, and with the goal of furnishing the best possible chance of survival, without disability or preventable complication, to each EMS patient consistent with the requirements of an ambulance contract negotiated by Vancouver;

(3)    To encourage methods for developing specific performance standards, adequate review and medical protocols for such services; and

(4)    To establish a uniform EMS ordinance which may be adopted by other general purpose governmental units which have chosen to take advantage of a uniform standard of care in recognition of the roles of the Vancouver/Clark County medical facilities and health care community as regional providers of primary, secondary and tertiary medical care. (Sec. 2 of Ord. 2015-08-03)