Florida Statutes
Part I - Hospitals and Other Licensed Facilities (Ss. 395.001-395.3041)
395.3041 - Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center.


(1) By June 1 of each year, the department shall send the list of acute stroke ready centers, primary stroke centers, thrombectomy-capable stroke centers, and comprehensive stroke centers to the medical director of each licensed emergency medical services provider in the state.
(2) The department shall develop a sample stroke-triage assessment tool. The department must post this sample assessment tool on its website and provide a copy of the assessment tool to each licensed emergency medical services provider. Each licensed emergency medical services provider must use a stroke-triage assessment tool that is substantially similar to the sample stroke-triage assessment tool provided by the department.
(3) The medical director of each licensed emergency medical services provider shall develop and implement assessment, treatment, and transport-destination protocols for stroke patients with the intent to assess, treat, and transport stroke patients to the most appropriate hospital. Such protocols must consider the capability of an emergency receiving facility to improve outcomes for those patients suspected of having an emergent large vessel occlusion.
(4) Each emergency medical services provider licensed under chapter 401 must comply with this section.
History.—s. 5, ch. 2004-325; s. 3, ch. 2017-172; s. 4, ch. 2019-135.

Structure Florida Statutes

Florida Statutes

Title XXIX - Public Health

Chapter 395 - Hospital Licensing and Regulation

Part I - Hospitals and Other Licensed Facilities (Ss. 395.001-395.3041)

395.001 - Legislative intent.

395.002 - Definitions.

395.003 - Licensure; denial, suspension, and revocation.

395.004 - Application for license; fees.

395.0056 - Litigation notice requirement.

395.009 - Minimum standards for clinical laboratory test results and diagnostic X-ray results; prerequisite for issuance or renewal of license.

395.0091 - Alternate-site testing.

395.0161 - Licensure inspection.

395.0162 - Inspection reports.

395.0163 - Construction inspections; plan submission and approval; fees.

395.0185 - Rebates prohibited; penalties.

395.0191 - Staff membership and clinical privileges.

395.0192 - Duty to notify physicians.

395.0193 - Licensed facilities; peer review; disciplinary powers; agency or partnership with physicians.

395.0195 - Access of chiropractic physicians to diagnostic reports.

395.0197 - Internal risk management program.

395.1011 - Identification, segregation, and separation of biomedical waste.

395.1012 - Patient safety.

395.1021 - Treatment of sexual assault victims.

395.1023 - Child abuse and neglect cases; duties.

395.1024 - Patients consenting to adoptions; protocols.

395.1025 - Infectious diseases; notification.

395.1027 - Regional poison control centers.

395.1031 - Emergency medical services; communication.

395.1041 - Access to and ensurance of emergency services; transfers; patient rights; diversion programs; reports of controlled substance overdoses.

395.1051 - Duty to notify patients.

395.1052 - Patient access to primary care and specialty providers; notification.

395.1053 - Postpartum education.

395.1054 - Birthing quality improvement initiatives.

395.1055 - Rules and enforcement.

395.1056 - Plan components addressing a hospital’s response to terrorism; public records exemption; public meetings exemption.

395.106 - Risk pooling by certain hospitals and hospital systems.

395.1061 - Professional liability coverage.

395.1065 - Criminal and administrative penalties; moratorium.

395.107 - Facilities; publishing and posting schedule of charges; penalties.

395.10973 - Powers and duties of the agency.

395.2050 - Routine inquiry for organ and tissue donation; certification for procurement activities; death records review.

395.301 - Price transparency; itemized patient statement or bill; patient admission status notification.

395.3015 - Patient records; form and content.

395.302 - Patient records; penalties for alteration.

395.3025 - Patient and personnel records; copies; examination.

395.3035 - Confidentiality of hospital records and meetings.

395.3036 - Confidentiality of records and meetings of entities that lease public hospitals or other public health care facilities.

395.3037 - Definitions.

395.3038 - State-listed stroke centers; notification of hospitals.

395.30381 - Statewide stroke registry.

395.3039 - Advertising restrictions.

395.3041 - Emergency medical services providers; triage and transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center.