18-APPROVE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING EXECUTION OF AGREEMENT WITH ESSENT PRMC FOR ASSISTIVE SERVICES

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EMS QUALITY AND ACCESS AGREEMENT all instructions from emergency nursing staff or physicians. City shall ensure that all Paris EMS policies and procedures, and the conduct and actions of all EMS Staff, comply with all applicable federal and state laws, including the nondiscrimination provisions of applicable Texas regulations. This includes establishing and maintaining an environment free from disruption, intimidation, coercion and harassment (including without limitation sexual harassment). 1.9 Confidentiality. Unless otherwise required by law, City shall not, without obtaining the prior written consent of PRMC, disclose information relating to the business methods, business policies, procedures, techniques or trade secrets, or other knowledge or processes of or developed by the Hospital, or any other confidential information relating to or dealing with the business operations, activities or affairs of PRMC ("Confidential Information") to persons other than state licensing boards or agencies, federal or state governmental authorities, The Joint Commission and such third-party reimbursement agencies or parties as may be required pursuant to the terms and conditions of an applicable contract for reimbursement. Immediately upon the termination of this Agreement, City shall deliver to PRMC all documents, computer discs and other forms of recorded information, including all copies thereof, containing Confidential Information. ARTICLE II OBLIGATIONS OF PRMC 21 To ensure that emergency medical services are readily accessible when required by the community, PRMC shall provide, at each of the Hospitals, living quarters for on- duty EMS Staff and appropriate space for parking the ambulances furnished by the City. 2.2 PRMC agrees that neither PRMC nor Hospitals shall schedule EMS Staff for work shifts, or in any other way seek to utilize the services of EMS Staff, other than as permitted by this Agreement. 2.3 Neither PRMC nor City shall hold out or represent to the public that: a) the City furnishes the Assistive Services as PRMC or the Hospitals' agents or employees; or, b) PRMC or the Hospitals furnish emergency medical transport services. 2.4 PRMC acknowledges and agrees that Paris EMS will continue to abide by all state and local requirements for pre-hospital patient care and routing, and that nothing in this Agreement shall obligate the City to transport any patient to the Hospitals, except as such patient would be transported to the Hospitals under applicable state and local protocols applicable to Paris EMS. This Ageement does not require any referral for any business between the parties, and is entered into solely to facilitate the provision of high quality emergency medical transport and services to the people of the Service Area. 2.5 PRMC staff shall comply with all applicable federal, state, and local requirements for the provision of emergency medical services, including the nondiscrimination provisions of applicable Texas regulations. This includes establishing and maintaining an environment free from disruption, intimidation, coercion and harassment (including without limitation sexual harassment). 4424567.5 3 ~ _ 97