Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) An EMS service provider shall:
(1) Develop and implement, in cooperation
with other EMS system participants, a provider-specific written EMS QI program,
as defined in Section
100400 of this Chapter. Such
programs shall include indicators, as defined in Section III and Appendix E of
the Emergency Medical Services System Quality Improvement Program Model
Guidelines, which address, but are not limited to, the following:
(A) Personnel
(B) Equipment and Supplies
(C) Documentation
(D) Clinical Care and Patient
Outcome
(E) Skills
Maintenance/Competency
(F)
Transportation/Facilities
(G)
Public Education and Prevention
(H)
Risk Management
(2)
Review the provider-specific EMS QI Program annually for appropriateness to the
operation of the EMS provider and revise as needed.
(3) Participate in the local EMS agency's EMS
QI Program that may include making available mutually agreed upon relevant
records for program monitoring and evaluation.
(4) Develop, in cooperation with appropriate
personnel/agencies, a performance improvement action plan when the EMS QI
Program identifies a need for improvement. If the area identified as needing
improvement includes system clinical issues, collaboration is required with the
provider medical director and the local EMS agency medical director or his/her
designee if the provider does not have a medical director.
(5) Provide the local EMS agency with an
annual update, from date of approval and annually thereafter, on the provider
EMS QI Program. The update shall include, but not be limited to, a summary of
how the EMS provider's EMS QI Program addressed the program
indicators.
(b) The EMS
provider EMS QI Program shall be in accordance with the Emergency Medical
Services Quality Improvement Program Model Guidelines (Rev. 3/04), incorporated
herein by reference, and shall be approved by the local EMS agency. This is a
model program which will develop over time and is to be tailored to the
individual organization's quality improvement needs and is to be based on
available resources for the EMS QI program.
(c) The provider EMS QI Program shall be
reviewed by the local EMS agency at least every five years.
1. New
article 2 (section 100402) and section filed 9-10-2004; operative 10-10-2004
(Register 2004, No. 37).
Note: Authority cited: Sections
1797.103,
1797.107,
1797.174
and
1797.176,
Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
1797.174
and
1797.220,
Health and Safety Code.
The amended version of this section by
Register
2024, No. 38, effective
1/1/2025 is not yet
available.
