CopyAgo (Fla. Att'y Gen. 1996).
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...Assistant General Counsel Dear Mr. Franklin: You ask substantially the following question: May the Medical Director for the City of Jacksonville's Fire and Rescue Department submit drug test results to the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services pursuant to section 401.265 (2), Florida Statutes, when the director, as a private physician under contract with the city, has performed the physical examinations on medical technicians and paramedics? In sum: Written authorization by the patient to release the...
...cal director report any incident that would lead to discipline against a medical technician or paramedic to the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, allow the medical director to submit drug test results to the department as required by section 401.265 (2), Florida Statutes....
...appropriate quality assurance, but not administrative and managerial functions. 3 Each director is required to establish a quality assurance committee to review all emergency medical technicians and paramedics operating under his or her supervision. Section 401.265 (2), Florida Statutes, states: Each medical director shall establish a quality assurance committee to provide for quality assurance review of all emergency medical technicians and paramedics operating under his or her supervision....
...6 Providing the test results to the medical director, therefore, would appear to be an integral part of the director's responsibility to oversee the provision of emergency services and to maintain appropriate quality assurance relative to paramedics and emergency medical technicians. Moreover, the specific provisions in section 401.265 (2), Florida Statutes, directing the medical director to document facts and other information related to an alleged violation and to report the paramedic or emergency medical technician to HRS would appear to operate as an exception t...
...lts to the city's medical director, regardless of the fact that the examining physician is also the medical director. Moreover, the medical director may submit the drug test results to the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services pursuant to section
401.265 (2), Florida Statutes, for purposes of reporting incidents that would lead to the discipline of emergency medical technicians or paramedics. Sincerely, Robert A. Butterworth Attorney General RAB/tls 1 You state that the drug testing is not conducted pursuant to the provisions in ss.
440.101 and
440.102 , Fla. Stat., therefore, no discussion of those statutes is necessary. 2 Section
401.265 (1), Fla....
