California Health and Safety Code

§ 1798

HSC § 1798Div. 2.5 · Ch. 5

Statute text

(a)The medical direction and management of an emergency medical services system shall be under the medical control of the medical director of the local EMS agency. This medical control shall be maintained in accordance with standards for medical control established by the authority.

(b)Medical control shall be within an EMS system which complies with the minimum standards adopted by the authority, and which is established and implemented by the local EMS agency.

(c)In the event a medical director of a base station questions the medical effect of a policy of a local EMS agency, the medical director of the base station shall submit a written statement to the medical director of the local EMS agency requesting a review by a panel of medical directors of other base stations. Upon receipt of the request, the medical director of a local EMS agency shall promptly convene a panel of medical directors of base stations to evaluate the written statement. The panel shall be composed of all the medical directors of the base stations in the region, except that the local EMS medical director may limit the panel to five members. This subdivision shall remain in effect only until the authority adopts more comprehensive regulations that supersede this subdivision.

Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 1988, Ch. 1390, Sec. 6.