256.12 Emergency medical services programs.

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(1)Definition. In this section, “public agency” has the meaning given in s. 256.15

(n).

(2)Emergency medical services programs.

(a)Any county, city, town, village, hospital, ambulance service provider, or combination thereof may, after submission of a plan approved by the department, conduct an emergency medical services program using emergency medical services practitioners for the delivery of emergency medical care to sick, disabled, or injured individuals at the scene of an emergency and during transport to a hospital, while in the hospital emergency department until responsibility for care is assumed by the regular hospital staff, and during transfer of a patient between health care facilities. An ambulance service provider may, after submission of a plan approved by the department, conduct an emergency medical services program using emergency medical services practitioners for the delivery of emergency medical care to sick, disabled, or injured individuals during transfer of the individuals between health care facilities. Nothing in this section prohibits an emergency medical services program from using community paramedics and community emergency medical services practitioners for services described in ss. 256.205

(6)and 256.21

(6)or from providing nonemergency services in accordance with s. 256.15

(6p). Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the operation of fire department, police department, for-profit ambulance service provider, or other emergency vehicles using the services of emergency medical services practitioners in conjunction with a program approved by the department. Hospitals that offer approved training courses for emergency medical services practitioners should, if feasible, serve as the base of operation for approved programs using emergency medical services practitioners.

(b)The department shall review and, if the department determines that the plans are satisfactory, approve the plans submitted under par.

(a). The department shall:

1. Provide administrative support and technical assistance to emergency medical services programs that use emergency medical services practitioners or ambulance service providers.

2. Coordinate the activities of agencies and organizations providing training for the delivery of emergency medical services.

3. Assist the development of training for emergency medical services practitioners.

4. Assess the emergency medical resources and services of the state and encourage the allocation of resources to areas of identified need.

5. Assist hospitals in planning for appropriate and efficient handling of the critically ill and injured.

(2m)State medical director for emergency medical services program.

(a)The department shall contract with a physician to direct the state emergency medical services program. The department may expend from the funding under the federal preventive health services project grant program under 42 USC 2476 under the appropriation account under s. 20.435

(mc), $25,000 in each fiscal year for this purpose.