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outside hospitals that will routinely transport patients on medevacs;

(2) have available certified or licensed medical personnel, to include emergency medical technicians, paramedics, physician assistants, registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, or physicians, and assure the department that at least one of the certified or licensed medical personnel who has successfully completed department-approved medevac training, will be available to accompany each medevac patient; and

(3) have available appropriate medical equipment to perform emergency medical procedures within the skill levels of available certified or licensed medical personnel; the equipment must include the recommended equipment, supplies, and drugs, excluding the extrication equipment unless needed by the service, for the EMT-Ambulance, EMT-Intermediate, and those parts of the EMT-Paramedic for which the applicant has standing orders signed by the medical director, listed in “Essential Equipment for Ambulances”, Aug. 1983 American College of Surgeons Bulletin, Vol. 68, No. 8. (c) In addition to those requirements listed in (a) of this section, an applicant for certification as a critical care air ambulance service shall

(1) be able to routinely provide or offer to provide critical care air ambulance service;

(2) have available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, aircraft, containing the aircraft equipment and of the design recommended by the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the American Medical Association Commission on Emergency Medical Services in Air Ambulance Guidelines 1981, including a heating system, air-to-ground and air-to-air communications capability, interior lighting for patient care, pressurization, if available and required for patient care, and adequate space for proper patient care;

(3) have available licensed medical personnel, to include paramedics, physician assistants, registered nurses, critical care registered nurses, certified emergency nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, or physicians, and assure the department that at least one of the licensed medical personnel, who has successfully completed department-approved aeromedical training, will be available to accompany each seriously or critically ill or injured patient on air ambulance transports;

(4) have a medical director who agrees to accept the responsibilities set out in 7 AAC 26.650(b), and shall submit written verification, on a form provided by the department, that the medical director meets the applicable qualifications set out in 7 AAC 26.630;

(5) have written procedures for handling all categories of patients who will be provided transportation; and

(6) have available, for all categories of patients being transported, appropriate medical equipment that must include the recommended equipment, supplies, and drugs listed in “Appendix D to Hospital Resources Document, Air Ambulance Operations”, Section B, Oct. 1984, American College of Surgeons Bulletin, Vol. 69, No. 10, and medications or equipment for other missions as required by the medical director.