Hazlet First Aid & Rescue Squad

Borrowed from our friends at Keansburg EMS-
Ambulance Transport Clarification🚑
There seems to be some confusion regarding patients dictating where our ambulance must transport them. We’d like to clarify how this works.
Under New Jersey EMS standards, ambulances transport patients to the closest appropriate emergency department based on medical need.
Patient preference alone, including “I always go there” or “my doctor is there” does not require EMS to go to a farther hospital.
For most emergencies in our area, that means Bayshore or Riverview Medical Centers, both fully capable emergency departments.
As a volunteer, non-billing EMS service, unnecessary long transports can leave our town without an available ambulance.
🚨 When specialty care is medically required (Certain stroke calls & heart attack calls, major trauma, burns, maternity, etc.), patients are transported to the appropriate specialty center along side Advance Life Support services. These specialty centers are usually Jersey Shore University Medical Center or Monmouth Medical Center.
If there is no medical need to go farther, options include:
• Closest appropriate hospital by ambulance
• Private vehicle
• Declining ambulance transport
This is legal, medically appropriate, and standard across New Jersey EMS.
Thank you for supporting your local volunteer EMS