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clinics, doctor's offices, nursing homes, minor emergency <br /> centers, etc. <br /> <br /> 1.15 OPERATOR <br /> <br /> "Operator" means a person in actual physical control of a <br /> vehicle which is in motion or which has the engine running. <br /> <br /> 1.16 PATIENT <br /> <br /> "Patient" means an individual who is sick, injured, wounded <br /> or otherwise incapacitated or helpless. <br /> <br /> 1.16.1 EMERGENCY PATIENT <br /> <br /> "Emergency patient" means a patient for which the need for <br />emergency medical care is anticipated either at the time of <br />service or enroute to a medical facility or whose condition is <br />medically unstable or any patient whose request for service is <br />due to traumatic injury or a medical problem with sudden or acute <br />onset of symptoms at the time service is requested. <br /> <br /> Emergency patients also include those patients who require, <br />may require or are receiving intensive care procedures as defined <br />in North Carolina Administrative Code, Subchapter 32H - Mobile <br />Intensive Care, Section .0402 through .0406 (inclusive), at any <br />time while ambulance service is being provided. <br /> <br /> 1.16.2 NON-EMERGENCY PATIENT <br /> <br /> "Non-Emergency patient" means a sick or infirm patient with <br />either a known, non-urgent or non-emergent medical condition for <br />which emergency medical care is neither anticipated at the time <br />of service nor enroute to their destination. Non-emergency <br />patients may be referred to herein, on occasion, as convalescent <br />patients. <br /> <br /> Non-Emergency patients also include those patients of any <br />Hospice program with which the non-emergency ambulance service <br />provider contracts to provide transportation services and for <br />whom no emergency medical care is to be provided in accordance <br />with lawful and appropriate orders from the patients' physician. <br /> <br /> A long-term or chronically ill patient with an indwelling <br />naso-gastrlc or urinary catheter may be classified as a non- <br />emergency patient for local ambulance transportation (call origin <br />and destination within the County; when the patient's physician <br />authorizes transportation by a non-emergency ambulance service <br />provider at the time of service, when no medical care or <br />procedures are required enroute, and when such authorization is <br />documented On the Ambulance Call Report. A patient with an <br /> <br /> 4,3 <br /> <br /> <br />