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2008026929 Received: 4121/2008 12:54:51 PM
Recorded: 0412112008 02:38:35 PM Filed &
Recorded in Official Records of PAT O'BRIEN.
PULASKI COUNTY CIRCUIT /COUNTY CLERK
ORDINANCE NO. 19954 Fees $0.00
AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL S 5 -76 (c) OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES PERTAINING TO
EMERGENCY RECEIVING FACILITY DIVERSIONS; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY; AND FOR
OTHER PURPOSES.
WHEREAS, patients who have been recently discharged from a given hospital who then have an
acute medical condition requiring an ambulance trip back to the hospital can often not get back to the
facility where their medical records are maintained due to that hospital's emergency receiving facility
being on diversion; and
WHEREAS, patients who are informed that their hospital is on diversion have refused ambulance
transport and driven themselves to the hospital, sometimes at great risk to themselves; and
WHEREAS, diversion has become so common that in practice it no longer works and the City
ordinance authorizing same should be repealed to permit a new policy to be implemented.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE CITY OF LITTLE
ROCK, ARKANSAS:
Section 1. Little Rock, Ark., Rev. Code S 5 -76 (c) is hereby repealed and subsequent paragraphs
renumbered.
Section 2. Severability. In the event any title, section, paragraph, item, sentence, clause,
phrase, or word of this ordinance is declared or adjudged to be invalid or unconstitutional, such
declaration or adjudication shall not affect the remaining portions of this ordinance, which shall
remain in full force and effect as if the portion so declared or adjudged invalid or unconstitutional was
not originally a part of this ordinance.
Section 3. Emergency Clause. Whereas, it has been determined that the emergency receiving
facility diversion policy in the ordinance no longer operates effectively due to changed conditions; and
whereas, the Board of Directors has determined it should be repealed to permit a new policy to be
implemented; and further that such repeal will not adversely affect the health and welfare of the
citizens of Little Rock, an emergency is hereby declared and this Ordinance shall take effect
immediately upon its passage.
PASSED: April 15, 2008
ATTEST:
Nan Wood, ity Clerk
APPROVED AS TO LEGAL FORM:
Thomas M. Carpenter, City Attodney
Ordinance
To repeal §5 -76 of the Code of Ordinances pertaining to
emergency receiving facility diiversions
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APPROVED:
Mark Stodola,
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