Chapter 682 — Chapter 682
112 sections in this chapter.
ORS 682.518 Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee; membership; duties; Oregon Health Authority rules. (1) The Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee is established in the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board. The committee shall consist of members determined by the board and the Oregon Health Authority and must include at least
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(a) Two members who are physicians specializing in the treatment of pediatric emergency patients; (b) One member who is a nurse who has pediatric emergency experience; (c) One member who is a physician with pediatric training; (d) One member who is an emergency medical services p…
ORS 682.521 Behavioral Health Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee; membership; duties; Oregon Health Authority rules. (1) The Behavioral Health Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee is established in the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board. The committee shall consist of members determined by the board and the Oregon Health Authority and must include at least
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(a) Two members who are physicians specializing in the treatment of time-sensitive behavioral health medical emergencies; (b) One member who is a physician who practices emergency medicine or emergency medical services medicine; (c) One member who is an emergency medical services…
ORS 682.524 Long Term Care and Senior Care Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee; membership; duties; Oregon Health Authority rules. (1) The Long Term Care and Senior Care Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee is established in the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board. The committee shall consist of members determined by the board and the Oregon Health Authority and must include at least
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(a) One member who is a physician licensed under ORS chapter 677 who practices emergency medicine or emergency medical services medicine; (b) One member who is an emergency medical services provider licensed under ORS 682.216; (c) One member who represents a patient equity organi…
ORS 682.527 (1)(a) The Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, upon the advice of the Time-Sensitive Medical Emergencies Advisory Committee, the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Behavioral Health Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee and the Long Term Care and Senior Care Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee, shall determine the nationally recognized classification standards to recommend to the Oregon Health Authority to adopt as rules for categorization and designation of emergency medical services centers for the provision of trauma, stroke, cardiac, pediatric, behavioral health and long term and senior care and other identified time-sensitive emergencies
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(b) If a nationally recognized classification standard used by the authority under this subsection requires that an emergency medical services center use a specific data system or registry in order to obtain a specific categorization or designation, the authority shall require an…
ORS 682.530 Emergency medical services regions; regional emergency medical services advisory boards, membership; regional emergency medical services system plans; rules. (1) The Oregon Health Authority shall, with the advice of the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, designate emergency medical services regions that are consistent with local resources, geography, current patient referral patterns and existing regionalized health care structures and networks. The authority and the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board shall establish a regional emergency medical services advisory board for each designated emergency medical services region. The authority and the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board may determine the membership of each regional emergency medical services advisory board, and shall ensure that the membership reflects the geographic, cultural, linguistic and economic diversity of the emergency medical services region
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(2) Each emergency medical services region must include at least one hospital categorized according to the emergency medical services region’s emergency medical services capabilities as determined by standards adopted by the authority by rule. (3) The authority, with the advice o…
ORS 682.533 Emergency medical services data system; reporting; system requirements; access to data; rules. (1) The Emergency Medical Services Program, upon the recommendation of the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board, shall establish and maintain an emergency medical services data system. In formulating recommendations, the board shall consider the advice of the Time-Sensitive Medical Emergencies Advisory Committee, the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee, the Pediatric Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee and the Behavioral Health Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee. The Oregon Health Authority shall adopt rules for the data system described in this subsection to establish
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(a) The information that must be reported to the data system; (b) A process for the oversight of the data system and the reporting of information to the data system; (c) The form and frequency of reporting information: (A) To the data system, the authority and the board; and (B) …
ORS 682.536 Emergency Medical Services Program internal data system. The Emergency Medical Services Program may create internal data systems in addition to the emergency medical services data system established and maintained under ORS 682.533. The program may not require
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(1) An emergency medical services center to adopt and use an internal data system created under this section. (2) Reporting of data that is not otherwise required of an emergency medical services center in order for the emergency medical services center to obtain a specific categ…
ORS 682.539 Confidentiality of data; information protection. (1) All findings and conclusions, interviews, reports, studies, communications and statements procured or provided by the Oregon Health Authority, the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board or a regional emergency medical services advisory board in connection with obtaining data necessary to perform patient care quality assurance functions are confidential pursuant to ORS 192.338, 192.345 and 192.355
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(2)(a) All data, including written reports, notes, records and recommendations, received or compiled by the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board or a regional emergency medical services advisory board in conjunction with the authority’s duties under subsection (1) of this se…
ORS 682.542 Compliance with classification standards, regional emergency medical services plans; Emergency Medical Services Program grants, other grants. (1) The Emergency Medical Services Program shall establish an incentive structure to encourage compliance with the classification standards described in ORS 682.527 and the regional emergency medical services system plans established under ORS 682.530. The structure must specify that
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(a)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B) of this paragraph, any statewide grant or program related to emergency medical services, including any federal program related to emergency medical services that is required to be administered by a state agency, must be administered b…
ORS 682.545 Immunity from civil, criminal liability. (1) An emergency medical services provider may not be held liable for acting in accordance with approved emergency medical services plans
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(2) A person who in good faith provides information to an emergency medical services data system is immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred or imposed with respect to provision of the information. [2024 c.32 §16] Note: Sections 33 and 34, chap…
ORS 682.990 [Renumbered 677.990 (4)]
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PENALTIES
ORS 682.991 Civil and criminal penalties. (1) Violation of any provision of ORS 682.028, 682.047 (5) or 682.204 is a Class A misdemeanor. Each day of continuing violation shall be considered a separate offense
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(2) Violation of any provision of this chapter is a misdemeanor. In any prosecution for such violation it shall be sufficient to sustain a conviction to show a single act of conduct in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter and it shall not be necessary to show a gene…