N.Y. Public Health Law § 3072: Description

§ 3072. Description. Emergency medical services for children is a

system for the immediate recognition and management of sudden illness

and injury in children that embraces the continuum of pediatric

emergency medical, trauma, and disaster care, from prevention through

rehabilitation, and addresses emergency medical dispatch, prehospital

emergency care, inhospital emergency care, and primary, secondary, and

tertiary health care, in support of pediatric care provided within the

child's medical home. It is not separate from, but fully integrated

with, the emergency medical services system at all levels of emergency

medical services system organization, in the community, in the region,

and in the state.