Emergency medical services: nonstandard patient offload time.

Existing law requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop a statewide standard methodology for the calculation and reporting of ambulance patient offload time, as defined, by a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency. Existing law authorizes a local EMS agency to adopt policies and procedures to calculate and report ambulance patient offload time. Existing law requires a local EMS agency that adopts policies and procedures for calculating and reporting ambulance patient offload time to establish criteria for the reporting of, and quality assurance followup for, a nonstandard patient offload time, as defined.