Chapter 401 Medical Telecommunications And Transportation
Part I - Emergency Telecommunication Systems
(ss. 401.013-401.027)
- §401.013 Legislative intent.
It is the intention and purpose of the Legislature that a statewide system of regional emergency medical telecommunications be developed whereby maximum use of existing...
- §401.015 Statewide regional emergency medical telecommunication system.
The Department of Management Services is authorized and directed to develop a statewide system of regional emergency medical telecommunications. For the purpose of this part,...
- §401.018 System coordination.
(1) The statewide system of regional emergency medical telecommunications shall be developed by the Department of Management Services, which department shall be responsible for the implementation...
- §401.021 System director.
The Secretary of Management Services or his or her designee is designated as the director of the statewide telecommunications system of the regional emergency medical...
- §401.024 System approval.
From July 1, 1973, no emergency medical telecommunications system shall be established or present systems expanded without prior approval of the Department of Management Services....
- §401.027 Federal assistance.
The Secretary of Management Services or his or her designee is authorized to apply for and accept federal funding assistance in the development and implementation...
Part II - Emergency Medical Services Grants (ss. 401.101-401.121)
- §401.101 Short title.
This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Florida Emergency Medical Services Grant Act." History.--s. 1, ch. 73-262; s. 8, ch. 89-275;...
- §401.104 Legislative intent.
It is the legislative intent that emergency medical services are essential to the health and well-being of all citizens and that private and public expenditures...
- §401.107 Definitions.
As used in this part, the term: (1) "Department" means the Department of Health. (2) "Local agency" means the board of county commissioners. (3) "Emergency medical services" means...
- §401.111 Emergency medical services grant program; authority.
The department is hereby authorized to make grants to local agencies, emergency medical services organizations, and youth athletic organizations in accordance with any agreement entered...
- §401.113 Department; powers and duties.
(1) Funds deposited into the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund as provided by ss. 316.061, 316.192, 318.21, and 938.07 must be used solely to improve and...
- §401.117 Grant agreements; conditions.
The department shall use the following guidelines in developing the procedures for grant disbursement: (1) The need for emergency medical services and the requirements of the...
- §401.121 Rules and regulations.
The department is authorized to make rules and regulations necessary to carry out the purposes of this part, including funds and assistance to nonprofit volunteer...
Part III - Medical Transportation Services (ss. 401.2101-401.45)
- §401.2101 Short title.
This part may be cited as the "Raymond H. Alexander, M.D., Emergency Medical Transportation Services Act." History.--s. 1, ch. 92-78. ...
- §401.211 Legislative intent.
The Legislature recognizes that the systematic provision of emergency medical services saves lives and reduces disability associated with illness and injury. In addition, that system...
- §401.23 Definitions.
As used in this part, the term: (1) "Advanced life support" means treatment of life-threatening medical emergencies through the use of techniques such as endotracheal intubation,...
- §401.24 Emergency medical services state plan.
The department is responsible, at a minimum, for the improvement and regulation of basic and advanced life support programs. The department shall develop and biennially...
- §401.243 Injury prevention.
The department shall establish an injury-prevention program with responsibility for the statewide coordination and expansion of injury-prevention activities. The duties of the department under the...
- §401.245 Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council.
(1) There is hereby created an advisory council for the purpose of acting as the advisory body to the emergency medical services program. The duties of...
- §401.25 Licensure as a basic life support or an advanced life support service.
(1) Every person, firm, corporation, association, or governmental entity owning or acting as agent for the owner of any business or service which furnishes, operates, conducts,...
- §401.251 Air ambulance service; licensure.
(1) Each person, firm, corporation, association, or governmental entity that owns or acts as an agent for the owner of any business or service that furnishes,...
- §401.252 Interfacility transfer.
(1) A licensed basic or advanced life support ambulance service may conduct interfacility transfers in a permitted ambulance, using a registered nurse in place of an...
- §401.26 Vehicle permits for basic life support and advanced life support services.
(1) Every licensee shall possess a valid permit for each transport vehicle, advanced life support nontransport vehicle, and aircraft in use. Applications for such permits shall...
- §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...
- §401.268 Protocols with regional poison control centers.
By October 1, 1999, each licensee shall implement a prehospital emergency dispatch protocol with the regional poison control center established pursuant to s. 395.1027. The...
- §401.27 Personnel; standards and certification.
(1) Each permitted ambulance not specifically exempted from this part, when transporting a person who is sick, injured, wounded, incapacitated, or helpless, must be occupied by...
- §401.2701 Emergency medical services training programs.
(1) Any private or public institution in Florida desiring to conduct an approved program for the education of emergency medical technicians and paramedics shall: (a) Submit a...
- §401.271 Certification of emergency medical technicians and paramedics who are on active duty with the Armed Forces of the United States; spouses of members of the Armed Forces.
(1) Any member of the Armed Forces of the United States on active duty who, at the time he or she became a member, was in...
- §401.2715 Recertification training of emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
(1) The department shall establish by rule criteria for all emergency medical technician and paramedic recertification training. The rules shall provide that all recertification training equals...
- §401.272 Emergency medical services community health care.
(1) The purpose of this section is to encourage more effective utilization of the skills of emergency medical technicians and paramedics by enabling them to perform,...
- §401.273 Emergency medical technician and paramedic registry for disasters and emergencies.
(1) The department shall include on its forms for the certification or recertification of emergency medical technicians and paramedics who could assist the department in the...
- §401.281 Drivers.
(1) Each licensee is responsible for assuring that its vehicles are driven only by trained, experienced, and otherwise qualified personnel. The licensee must, at a minimum,...
- §401.2915 Automated external defibrillators.
It is the intent of the Legislature that an automated external defibrillator may be used by any person for the purpose of saving the life...
- §401.2916 Educational campaign.
The Department of Health shall implement an educational campaign to inform any person who acquires an automated external defibrillator device of the scope and limitations...
- §401.30 Records.
(1) Each licensee must maintain accurate records of emergency calls on forms that contain such information as is required by the department. These records must be...
- §401.31 Inspection and examination.
(1) In order to carry out the requirements of this part, the department shall periodically and randomly inspect licensees for compliance with the requirements of this...
- §401.321 Transferability of license; effect of sale, transfer, assignment, or lease of service.
(1) Each license is valid only for the licensee to whom it is issued and is not subject to sale, assignment, or other transfer, voluntary or...
- §401.33 Exemptions.
The following are exempt from this part: (1) A privately owned vehicle not ordinarily used in the business of transporting persons who are sick, injured, wounded,...
- §401.34 Fees.
(1) Each organization or person subject to this part must pay to the department the following nonrefundable fees: (a) Basic life support service license application: $660, to...
- §401.345 Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund.
(1) There is created the Emergency Medical Services Trust Fund in the State Treasury, which shall be used exclusively for those purposes provided by law. (2) Any...
- §401.35 Rules.
The department shall adopt rules, including definitions of terms, necessary to carry out the purposes of this part. (1) The rules must provide at least minimum...
- §401.38 Participation in federal programs.
The department shall develop federal funding proposals and apply for all federal funds available to carry out the purposes of this part. The department is...
- §401.41 Penalties.
(1) Any person who: (a) Uses or attempts to use a certificate, license, or permit that has been suspended, revoked, or terminated; (b) Practices or holds himself or...
- §401.411 Disciplinary action; penalties.
(1) The department may deny, suspend, or revoke a license, certificate, or permit or may reprimand or fine any licensee, certificateholder, or other person operating under...
- §401.414 Complaint investigation procedures.
(1) The department shall cause to be investigated any complaint that is filed before it if the complaint is in writing, signed by the complainant, and...
- §401.421 Injunctive relief; cease and desist notice; civil penalty; enforcement.
(1) The 1State Surgeon General may cause to be instituted a civil action in circuit court for preliminary or permanent injunctive relief to remedy or prevent...
- §401.425 Emergency medical services quality assurance; immunity from liability.
(1) As used in this section, the term "emergency medical review committee" or "committee" means a committee of: (a) An emergency medical service provider, a local or...
- §401.435 First responder agencies and training.
(1) The department must adopt by rule the United States Department of Transportation Emergency Medical Services: First Responder Training Course as the minimum standard for first...
- §401.445 Emergency examination and treatment of incapacitated persons.
(1) No recovery shall be allowed in any court in this state against any emergency medical technician, paramedic, or physician as defined in this chapter, any...
- §401.45 Denial of emergency treatment; civil liability.
(1)(a) Except as provided in subsection (3), a person may not be denied needed prehospital treatment or transport from any licensee for an emergency medical condition....
