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S-4.2 - Act respecting health services and social services

Section 359
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359. For the purpose of distributing emergency cases and ensuring a prompt and adequate response to the needs of the users, the agency and the regional department of general medicine shall, after consultation with the regional panel of heads of departments of specialized medicine,
(1)  approve admission criteria for and policies governing the transfer of users to centres operated by public institutions and private institutions under agreement;
(1.1)  (paragraph repealed);
(2)  ensure that adequate operating standards of emergency services are adopted by the institutions for which a clinical department of emergency medicine is set up or, if not, fix such standards;
(3)  ensure that the institutions for which a clinical department of emergency medicine is set up adopt and apply standards for the use and allocation of beds which are consistent with an adequate distribution of emergency cases or, if not, fix such standards;
(4)  develop and implement a regional information system to monitor, on a daily basis, the situation in the centres operated by the institutions for which a clinical department of emergency medicine is set up as regards the number and nature of registrations and admissions of users and their transfer and transport by ambulance.
1991, c. 42, s. 359; 1992, c. 21, s. 37; 1998, c. 39, s. 105; 2005, c. 32, s. 146; 2017, c. 21, s. 42.
359. For the purpose of distributing emergency cases and ensuring a prompt and adequate response to the needs of the users, the agency and the regional department of general medicine shall, after consultation with the regional panel of heads of departments of specialized medicine,
(1)  approve admission criteria for and policies governing the transfer of users to centres operated by public institutions and private institutions under agreement;
(1.1)  designate the institutions that are to dispense emergency services;
(2)  ensure that adequate operating standards of emergency services are adopted by the institutions designated under paragraph 1.1 or, if not, fix such standards;
(3)  ensure that the institutions designated under paragraph 1.1 adopt and apply standards for the use and allocation of beds which are consistent with an adequate distribution of emergency cases or, if not, fix such standards;
(4)  develop and implement a regional information system to monitor, on a daily basis, the situation in the centres operated by the institutions designated under paragraph 1.1 as regards the number and nature of registrations and admissions of users and their transfer and transport by ambulance.
1991, c. 42, s. 359; 1992, c. 21, s. 37; 1998, c. 39, s. 105; 2005, c. 32, s. 146.
359. For the purpose of distributing emergency cases and ensuring a prompt and adequate response to the needs of the users, the regional board and the regional department of general medicine shall, after consultation with the regional medical commission,
(1)  approve admission criteria for and policies governing the transfer of users to centres operated by public institutions and private institutions under agreement;
(1.1)  designate the institutions that are to dispense emergency services;
(2)  ensure that adequate operating standards of emergency services are adopted by the institutions designated under paragraph 1.1 or, if not, fix such standards;
(3)  ensure that the institutions designated under paragraph 1.1 adopt and apply standards for the use and allocation of beds which are consistent with an adequate distribution of emergency cases or, if not, fix such standards;
(4)  develop and implement a regional information system to monitor, on a daily basis, the situation in the centres operated by the institutions designated under paragraph 1.1 as regards the number and nature of registrations and admissions of users and their transfer and transport by ambulance.
1991, c. 42, s. 359; 1992, c. 21, s. 37; 1998, c. 39, s. 105.
359. For the purpose of distributing emergency cases and ensuring a prompt and adequate response to the needs of the users, the regional board shall, after consultation with the regional medical commission,
(1)  approve admission criteria for and policies governing the transfer of users to centres operated by public institutions and private institutions under agreement;
(2)  ensure that adequate operating standards of emergency services are adopted by the institutions or, if not, fix such standards;
(3)  ensure that the institutions adopt and apply standards for the use and allocation of beds which are consistent with an adequate distribution of emergency cases or, if not, fix such standards;
(4)  develop and implement a regional information system to monitor, on a daily basis, the situation in the centres operated by these institutions as regards the number and nature of registrations and admissions of users and their transfer and transport by ambulance.
1991, c. 42, s. 359; 1992, c. 21, s. 37.
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