Medical Communications

(A) Each ambulance service licensed to operate Class I, IV, and/or V ambulances and Class II ambulances, if they are used as backup for Class I ambulances, shall, at a minimum, provide for the relay of medical information through a dispatcher to appropriate health care facilities to which the ambulance service routinely transports patients. (B) Each BLS ambulance service licensed to operate a Class I ambulance shall provide its Class I ambulances with equipment for direct two-way mobile radio contact between its Class I ambulances and those appropriate health care facilities similarly equipped to which the ambulance routinely transports patients. (C) Each service licensed at the ALS level must have adequate portable two-way radio communications equipment to utilize the system of medical direction including a portable radio that can be transported to the scene of the emergency. (D) All BLS and ALS services’ communications and communications equipment must comply with the standards and requirements of the Massachusetts Emergency Medical Services Communications Plan.