- (A) Each ambulance service licensed to operate Class I, IV, and/or V ambulances and Class II ambulances, if they are used as backup for Class I ambulances, shall, at a minimum, provide for the relay of medical information through a dispatcher to appropriate health care facilities to which the ambulance service routinely transports patients.
- (B) Each BLS ambulance service licensed to operate a Class I ambulance shall provide its Class I ambulances with equipment for direct two-way mobile radio contact between its Class I ambulances and those appropriate health care facilities similarly equipped to which the ambulance routinely transports patients.
- (C) Each service licensed at the ALS level must have adequate portable two-way radio communications equipment to utilize the system of medical direction including a portable radio that can be transported to the scene of the emergency.
- (D) All BLS and ALS services’ communications and communications equipment must comply with the standards and requirements of the Massachusetts Emergency Medical Services Communications Plan.