§ 24a-1-15

A. In accordance with authority rules, the authority shall certify any acute care hospital as a primary stroke center, comprehensive stroke center or acute stroke capable center if that hospital has been accredited by the joint commission or any other nationally recognized accrediting body as a primary stroke center, comprehensive stroke center or acute stroke capable center. The authority shall post information regarding certification on the authority's website. If a hospital loses accreditation as a primary stroke center, comprehensive stroke center or acute stroke capable center, the secretary shall also remove that hospital's certification.B. In accordance with authority rules, the emergency medical systems bureau of the department of health shall work in coordination with all local and regional emergency medical services authorities statewide on the development of pre-hospitalization protocols related to the assessment, treatment and transport of stroke patients by licensed emergency medical services providers. These protocols shall include, at a minimum, plans for the triage and transport of stroke patients to the closest comprehensive or primary stroke center or, when

emergency medical services providers. These protocols shall include, at a minimum, plans for the triage and transport of stroke patients to the closest comprehensive or primary stroke center or, when appropriate, to an acute stroke capable center.C. The secretary may adopt rules to assist and encourage primary stroke centers to enter into coordinated stroke care agreements with other health care facilities throughout the state to provide appropriate access to care for acute stroke patients. History: Laws 2012, ch. 4, § 1; 2015, ch. 90, § 1; § 24-1-34, recompiled and amended as § 24A-1-15 by Laws 2024, ch. 39, § 36. ANNOTATIONSRecompilations. — Laws 2024, ch. 39, § 36 recompiled and amended former 24-1-34 NMSA 1978 as 24A-1-15 NMSA 1978, effective July 1, 2024.The 2024 amendment, effective July 1, 2024, replaced certain references to the department of health to health care authority to correspond with the new powers and duties of the health care authority; substituted 'authority' for 'department' throughout the section; and in Subsection B, after 'bureau of the department' added 'of health'.The 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, expanded sources of accreditation for stroke

'department' throughout the section; and in Subsection B, after 'bureau of the department' added 'of health'.The 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, expanded sources of accreditation for stroke centers and required the emergency medical systems bureau, in coordination with regional emergency medical services authorities statewide, to develop pre-hospitalization protocols related to the treatment of stroke patients; in Subsection A, after 'hospital has been accredited', added 'by the joint commission or any other nationally recognized accrediting body', after 'capable center', deleted 'by the joint commission', and after 'loses', deleted 'joint commission certification' and added 'accreditation'; and added Subsection B and redesignated the succeeding subsection accordingly.