Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a)
Roles and responsibilities. A regional EMS medical director
shall carry out the following duties:
(1)
Maintain liaison with the Commonwealth EMS Medical Director.
(2) Assist the regional EMS council, after
consultation with the regional medical advisory committee, to establish and
revise, subject to Department approval, regional EMS protocols.
(3) Assist the regional EMS council to
develop, subject to Department approval, criteria to recommend to PSAPs for
emergency medical dispatch, including criteria for prearrival instructions,
level of care to be dispatched to respond to various clinical conditions, types
of EMS resources to be sent and mode of EMS resource response.
(4) Serve as a member of the regional EMS
council's quality improvement committee and as that committee's liaison to the
regional EMS council's medical advisory committee.
(5) Serve on the State EMS Quality
Improvement Committee.
(6) Serve as
chairperson of the regional EMS council's medical advisory committee.
(7) Assist, as appropriate, the regional EMS
council in its investigations, analysis of investigation information and
recommendations to make to the Department on actions the Department should
pursue, if any, against certifications, licenses, accreditations and other
authorizations issued by the Department under the act.
(8) Review regional plans, procedures and
processes for compliance with State standards of EMS.
(b)
Minimum qualifications.
A regional EMS medical director shall have the following qualifications:
(1) Be a physician.
(2) Experience in prehospital and emergency
department care of the acutely ill or injured patient.
(3) Experience as a medical command physician
and as an EMS agency medical director or as an ALS service medical director
under the Emergency Medical Services Act (35 P. S. §§ 6921-6938) (repealed by the act of August 18,
2009 (P. L. 308, No. 37)).
(4)
Completed a residency program in emergency medicine accredited by a residency
program accrediting body recognized by the State Board of Medicine or the State
Board of Osteopathic Medicine or have served as a medical command physician in
this Commonwealth prior to October 14, 2000.
(5) Experience in the training of EMS
providers above and below the AEMT level.
(6) Experience in the medical audit, review
and critique of EMS providers above and below the AEMT
level.
(c)
Disclosure. A regional EMS medical director shall disclose to
a regional EMS council and the Department all financial or other interest in
entities regulated by the Department under the act and in other matters which
present a potential conflict of interest.
This section cited in 28 Pa. Code §
1021.104 (relating to
responsibilities of regional EMS councils); and 28 Pa. Code §
1023.5 (relating to Commonwealth
EMS Medical Director).
