PSA - Memorial Hosp of South Bend - Ambulance Staffing Agreement

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approval of Memorial's insurance carrier, for the Children's Hospital Ambulances; the driver shall have knowledge of primary and alternate routes to hospitals in the service area of Memorial. (d) SBFD shall house all units at the Memorial Emergency Transport Facility, 110 E. Marion Street, South Bend or other readily accessible facility mutually agreed upon by the parties. The maintenance records for all units shall be kept at the SBFD garage, or other such secure facility upon written notification to Memorial. (e) A Memorial employee so designated by the Medical Director(s) of the Neonatal/Pediatric Intensive Care Units or the Maternal Fetal Medicine department shall be solely responsible for determining when to dispatch the Children's Hospital Ambulances. On occasion, the hospital may determine the need for use of the Children's Hospital Ambulances for community events/programs to be manned by Memorial personnel. Memorial understands and acknowledges that use of any Children's Hospital Ambulance for such events may prolong the response time of that Unit, and/or its driver due to the changed location. (f) SBFD shall at all times maintain the Children's Hospital Ambulance radios, and make such arrangements as are necessary for maintenance and/or repair of them. (g) The Children's Hospital Ambulances shall be exclusively dedicated to use in providing services under this Agreement, and the SBFD shall not use the Children's Hospital Ambulances for any other purpose without the express written consent of Memorial. (h) In the event a Children's Hospital Ambulance is unsafe, South Bend Fire Department shall notify Memorial of this fact immediately and take other steps appropriate under this contract to make it safe. In the event all Children's Hospital Ambulances are unsafe or on runs, the South Bend Fire Department shall be excused from answering calls for transport made pursuant to this contract. (i) For the primary unit, an emergency response time of fifteen (15) minutes for NICU runs and thirty (30) minutes for PICU and Maternal runs shall be established. For any back-up units, an emergency response time of thirty (30) minutes shall be established whenever possible. Whenever possible, a non -emergency (back transport) will be scheduled between 0800 and 1500 hours and a twenty-four (24) hour notice period shall be established. 0) The SBFD shall respond to a telephone request from Memorial for dispatch of a Children's Hospital Ambulance for NICU within fifteen (15) minutes of the time it receives the call for the primary run or within thirty (30) minutes of the time it receives the call for a back-up run, and shall have the Children's Hospital Ambulance en route to the pick-up point within this time period unless the Children's Hospital Ambulance is providing services under this Agreement at the time the request for dispatch is received, or is delayed by adverse weather conditions or other events outside the control of the SBFD, in which case the SBFD shall dispatch the Children's Hospital Ambulances as soon as possible, or in accordance with the directions of