Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Health
Title R426 - Population Health, Emergency Medical Services
Rule R426-3 - Licensure
Section R426-3-7 - Medical Control
Universal Citation: UT Admin Code R 426-3-7
Current through Bulletin 2024-06, March 15, 2024
(1) All licensed providers shall enter into a written agreement with a physician to serve as its off-line medical director to supervise the medical care or instructions provided by the field EMS personnel and dispatchers. The physician shall be familiar with:
(a) the design and operation
of the local pre-hospital EMS system; and
(b) local dispatch and communication systems
and procedures.
(2) The off-line medical director shall:
(a) develop
and implement patient care standards which include written standing orders and
triage, treatment, and transport protocols;
(b) ensure the qualification of field EMS
personnel involved in patient care through the provision of ongoing continuing
medical education programs and appropriate review and evaluation;
(c) develop and implement an effective
quality improvement program, including medical audit, review, and critique of
patient care;
(d) annually review
triage, treatment, and transport protocols and update them as
necessary;
(e) suspend from patient
care, pending Department review, a field EMS personnel who does not comply with
local medical triage, treatment and transport protocols, or who violates any of
the EMS rules, or who the medical director determines is providing emergency
medical service in a careless or unsafe manner;
(f) the medical director shall notify the
Department within one business day of the suspension;
(f) attend meetings of the local EMS Council,
if one exists, to participate in the coordination and operations of local EMS
providers; and
(3) Licensed providers shall notify the Department if an off-line medical director is replaced, within 30 days.
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