For the purpose of these rules, the following definitions
shall apply:
"Department" means the Iowa department of
public health.
"Director " means the director of the Iowa
department of public health.
"Out-of-Hospital Trauma Triage Destination Decision
Protocol" means written directives to assist in the decision making,
established and approved by the department, that address the method of
transport and trauma care facility destination to be followed by the service
program.
"Service program" or"service"
means any medical care ambulance service or nontransport service that has
received authorization by the department.
"Transfer " means the process of a patient
being transferred from the scene of an injury to a trauma care facility or from
one trauma care facility to another.
"Trauma care facility" means a hospital or
emergency care facility which provides trauma care and has been verified by the
department as having Resource (Level I), Regional (Level II), Area (Level III)
or Community (Level IV) care capabilities and has been issued a certificate of
verification pursuant to Iowa Code section
147A.23,
subsection 2, paragraph"c. "
"Trauma system advisory council" means an
advisory council established pursuant to Iowa Code section
147A.24
to advise the department on issues and strategies to achieve optimal trauma
care delivery throughout the state.
"Trauma triage and transfer" means to
determine trauma care facility destination and mode of transportation.
"TSAC" means trauma system advisory
council.
