Texas Administrative Code › Title 25 - HEALTH SERVICES › Part 1 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES › Chapter 157 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL CARE › Subchapter C - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES TRAINING AND COURSE APPROVAL › Section 157.39 - Comprehensive Clinical Management Program Approval

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Purpose and Scope. This section
				  establishes eligibility requirements and minimum training standards that a
				  Texas licensed emergency medical services (EMS) provider must have and maintain
				  to receive approval by the department for the provider to conduct a
				  Comprehensive Clinical Management Program for Texas certified or licensed EMS
				  personnel employed by or affiliated with that EMS provider, such that those
				  personnel can become recertified or relicensed pursuant to §
										157.34(b)(5)
				  of this title (relating to Recertification). The program will assure that EMS
				  personnel affiliated with the EMS provider conducting the program will receive
				  continuing EMS education, quality improvement, intensified individualized
				  monitoring, mentoring, assessment and ongoing professional development as
				  required by the standards outlined in this section.
(b) Definitions.
(1) CCMP--A comprehensive clinical management
				  program is a recertification training program conducted by a licensed EMS
				  provider for EMS personnel employed by or affiliated with the EMS provider such
				  that the EMS personnel can meet recertification or relicensure requirements as
				  outlined in §
											157.34(b)(5)
				  of this title.
(2) CCMP
				  Coordinator--Person responsible for the administrative functions of the CCMP
				  program. However, the EMS provider, approved to conduct a CCMP, is the person
				  or entity having the ultimate and overall responsibility for continually
				  meeting state requirements for CCMP approval.
(3) Credentialing Process--The process by
				  which an EMS provider continually verifies and assesses the qualifications and
				  competencies of EMS personnel to provide patient care services.
(4) CCMP Survey Organization--A department
				  recognized organization, which manages a CCMP survey team comprised of members
				  as described and referenced in subsection (f) of this section for the purpose
				  of conducting a survey, based upon the standards outlined in this section, of
				  EMS providers seeking CCMP approval.
(5) Preceptor--A person who holds a
				  department EMS personnel certificate or license or other licensed medical
				  professional approved by the medical director and who is employed by or
				  volunteers for an EMS provider to train and evaluate EMS personnel.
(6) Quality Improvement Process--An ongoing
				  system that includes retrospective review, concurrent review, and prospective
				  forecasting of clinical care. Quality improvement also combines a circular
				  response through measurement of identified goals and sentinel events
				  identifying opportunities for improvement, reeducation, process design, and
				  measurement of corrective efforts.
(7) Self Study--A document developed by the
				  EMS provider that outlines its planning, preparation and qualifications to
				  conduct a CCMP and include 6 months of operational data.
(8) Survey--The onsite visit(s) conducted by
				  a department recognized CCMP survey organization that evaluates an EMS provider
				  applying for department approval to conduct a CCMP.
(9) Sentinel Event--An unexpected event that
				  triggers, or has the potential to trigger, an immediate investigation and/or
				  response. This event usually relates to the care of a patient or the well-being
				  of EMS personnel, such that the event causes or has the potential to cause
				  death, serious physical or psychological injury to either the patient or the
				  EMS personnel or the public.