(210 ILCS 50/3.5)
Sec. 3.5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Public Health.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of Public Health.
"Emergency" means a medical condition of recent onset and severity that would lead a prudent layperson, possessing an average knowledge of medicine and health, to believe that urgent or unscheduled medical care is required.
"Emergency Medical Services personnel" or "EMS personnel" means persons licensed as an Emergency Medical Responder (EMR) (First Responder), Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Emergency Medical Technician-Intermediate (EMT-I), Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (A-EMT), Paramedic (EMT-P), Emergency Communications Registered Nurse (ECRN), or Pre-Hospital Registered Nurse (PHRN).
"Health Care Facility" means a hospital, nursing home, physician's office or other fixed location at which medical and health care services are performed. It does not include "pre-hospital emergency care settings" which utilize EMS personnel to render pre-hospital emergency care prior to the arrival of a transport vehicle, as defined in this Act.
"Hospital" has the meaning ascribed to that term in the Hospital Licensing Act.
"Trauma" means any significant injury which involves single or multiple organ systems.
(Source: P.A. 98-973, eff. 8-15-14.)
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