Oregon Revised Statutes Chapter 682 § 682.527 — Nationally recognized classification standards for, and categorization and

Nationally recognized classification standards for, and categorization and designation of, emergency medical services centers; Oregon Health Authority rules. (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 and the Behavioral Health 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 and behavioral health care and other identified time-sensitive emergencies. (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 emergency medical services center that intends to obtain the categorization or designation to adopt the data system or registry not later than: (A) Eighteen months after the date on which the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Board and the authority determine the data system or registry must be adopted, if the emergency medical services center is a large facility or hospital, with an additional six months in which to demonstrate compliant usage of the data system or registry. (B) Three years after the date on which the board and the authority determine the data system or registry must be adopted, if the emergency medical services center is a critical access or rural health care facility or hospital, with an additional six months in which to demonstrate compliant usage of the data system or registry. (c) If no relevant nationally recognized classification standard is available for a specific type of emergency medical services center, the authority shall consider the recommendations of the board for one or more new classifications of a type of emergency medical services center. (d) The board and the authority may grant, at the request of an emergency medical services center, an extension to the timeline described in paragraph (b) of this subsection. (2)(a) An emergency medical services center is not required to obtain categorization or designation as described in subsection (1) of this section but may, at the discretion of the emergency medical services center, strive to obtain a specific categorization or designation. (b) An emergency medical services center described in this subsection is not required to adopt and use a specific data system or registry unless the data system or registry is required in order to obtain the categorization or designation that the emergency medical services center strives to obtain. (c) An emergency medical services center may concurrently adopt and use data systems or registries in addition to any data systems or registries required for a specific categorization or designation. (3) An emergency medical services center that uses any data system or registry shall grant to the authority permission to extract data subject to relevant confidentiality requirements. (4) An emergency medical services center may not hold itself out, or operate, as having obtained a specific categorization or designation until: (a) The emergency medical services center meets all requirements for the categorization or designation within the timelines specified in subsection (1)(b) of this section; and (b) The authority, through the Emergency Medical Services Program, recognizes that the emergency medical services center meets the categorization or designation requirements. (5) The authority shall adopt rules to carry out this section and may adopt as rules of the authority any relevant nationally recognized classification standards and proposed classification standards described in subsection (1) of this section. [2024 c.32 §10] Note: The amendments to 682.527 by section 40, chapter 32, Oregon Laws 2024, become operative January 1, 2027. See section 44, chapter 32, Oregon Laws 2024. The text that is operative on and after January 1, 2027, is set forth for the user’s convenience. 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 servic