California Code, Health and Safety Code - HSC § 1819

(1) Providing care and comfort services to hospice patients in their homes in response to 911 calls by providing for the patient's and the family's immediate care needs, including grief support in collaboration with the patient's hospice agency until the hospice nurse arrives to treat the patient. This paragraph does not impact or alter existing authorities applicable to a licensed paramedic operating under the medical control policies adopted by a local EMS agency medical director to treat and keep a hospice patient in the patient's current residence, or otherwise require transport to an acute care hospital in the absence of an approved triage to alternate destination hospice program.

(2) Providing patients with advanced life support triage and assessment by a triage paramedic and transportation to an alternate destination facility, as defined in Section 1811.

(3) Providing transport services for patients who identify as veterans and desire transport to a local veterans administration emergency department for treatment, when appropriate.