HB 2102 - Under this act, the state Emergency Medical Services (EMS) medical director will be the chair of the State EMS Medical Director's Advisory Committee. Additionally, regional EMS medical directors elected to serve on the committee will be considered public officials for the purposes of sovereign immunity, official immunity, and public duty doctrine defenses. The committee will be considered a peer review committee and the regional medical directors will be eligible to participate in the Missouri Patient Safety Organization. Regional EMS medical directors may provide online medical direction to specified emergency medical technicians (EMTs) and community paramedics, as well as provide offline medical direction concerning standardized treatment, triage, and transport protocols for special needs patients or at the request of a local EMS agency or medical director. Such protocols may include the administration of the patient's own prescription medications. The development of protocols under this act shall not be construed as usurping local medical direction authority in any manner. When developing these protocols, regional EMS medical directors may promulgate regional rules to be used by multiple agencies. Such agencies shall take necessary steps to follow the regional protocols in cases of mass casualties or state-declared disasters.
This provision is identical HB 2665 (2016).
This act also changes the composition of the board for the central dispatching of emergency services in Taney and St. Francois counties by requiring two of the board members to be residents of the county and not affiliated with any of the entities specified in the act. These board members will be known as public members.
This provision is identical to provisions in SCS/HCS/HB 1904 (2016) and HB 1053 (2015).
SARAH HASKINS