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The 2005 Florida Statutes
Title XXIX Chapter 401 View Entire
PUBLIC MEDICAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND Chapter
HEALTH TRANSPORTATION
401.265 Medical directors.--
(1) Each basic life support transportation service or advanced life support service must employ or
contract with a medical director. The medical director must be a licensed physician; a corporation,
association, or partnership composed of physicians; or physicians employed by any hospital that
delivers in -hospital emergency medical services and employs or contracts with physicians
specifically for that purpose. Such a hospital, physician, corporation, association, or partnership
must designate one physician from that organization to be medical director at any given time. The
medical director must supervise and assume direct responsibility for the medical performance of
the emergency medical technicians and paramedics operating for that emergency medical services
system. The medical director must perform duties including advising, consulting, training,
counseling, and overseeing of services, including appropriate quality assurance but not including
administrative and managerial functions.
(2) Each medical director shall establish a quality assurance committee to provide for quality
assurance review of all emergency medical technicians and paramedics operating under his or her
supervision. If the medical director has reasonable belief that conduct by an emergency medical
technician or paramedic may constitute one or more grounds for discipline as provided by this part,
he or she shall document facts and other information related to the alleged violation. The medical
director shall report to the department any emergency medical technician or paramedic whom the
medical director reasonably believes to have acted in a manner which might constitute grounds for
disciplinary action. Such a report of disciplinary concern must include a statement and
documentation of the specific acts of the disciplinary concern. Within 7 days after receipt of such a
report, the department shall provide the emergency medical technician or paramedic a copy of the
report of the disciplinary concern and documentation of the specific acts related to the disciplinary
concern. If the department determines that the report is insufficient for disciplinary action against
the emergency medical technician or paramedic pursuant to s. 401.411, the report shall be
expunged from the record of the emergency medical technician or paramedic.
(3) Any medical director who in good,faith gives oral or written instructions to certified emergency
medical services personnel for the provision of emergency care shall be deemed to be providing
emergency medical care or treatment for the purposes of s. 768.13(2).
(4) Each medical director who uses a paramedic or emergency medical technician to perform
blood pressure screening, health promotion, and wellness activities, or to administer immunization
on any patient under a protocol as specified in s. 401.2.72, which is not in the provision of
emergency care, is liable for any act or omission of any paramedic or emergency medical
technician acting under his or her supervision and control when performing such services.
(5) The department shall adopt and enforce all rules necessary to administer this section.
History.--ss. 6, 25, ch. 82-402; ss. 12, 13, ch. 83-196; s. 8, ch. 88-186; s. 15, ch. 89-275; s. 13, ch.
89-283; s. 70, ch. 89-374; ss. 8, 36, ch. 92-78; s. 34, ch. 93-211; s. 793, ch. 95-148; s. 45, ch. 97-
237; s. 3, ch. 98-87; s, 20, ch. 98-151.
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