Montana Code 50-6-402. Department duties — rules
50-6-402. Department duties — rules. (1) The department shall plan, coordinate, implement, and administer a statewide trauma care system that involves all health care facilities and emergency medical services within the state. The department shall also develop and adopt a statewide trauma care system plan and a state trauma register.
Terms Used In Montana Code 50-6-402
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Department: means the department of public health and human services provided for in Title 2, chapter 15, part 22. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- facility: means a hospital, critical access hospital, or medical assistance facility as defined in 50-5-101. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Hospital trauma register: means patient-specific trauma data that is maintained by a health care facility, in a format prescribed by department rule, and that has the primary purpose of facilitating peer review and quality improvement at the health care facility. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
- State trauma register: means trauma data relating to a specific patient or health care facility that is maintained by the department in an electronic format and that has the primary purpose of facilitating peer review and quality improvement for a health care facility or a trauma care system. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma: means a severe, abrupt injury to the human body that is caused by mechanical, environmental, thermal, or other physical force. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma care committee: means the trauma care committee created in 2-15-2216. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma care system: means a state or regional system for the prevention of trauma and the provision of optimal medical care to trauma victims that includes both provision of appropriate health care services and provision of emergency medical care, equipment, and personnel for effective and coordinated prehospital, hospital, interhospital, and rehabilitative care for trauma patients. See Montana Code 50-6-401
- Trauma facility: means a health care facility designated by the department pursuant to 50-6-410 as providing a specialized program in trauma care with appropriately trained personnel, equipment, and other facility resources that are specifically organized to provide optimal care to a trauma patient at the facility. See Montana Code 50-6-401
(2)The department shall adopt rules to:
(a)establish and coordinate the statewide trauma care system, including rules that establish:
(i)various levels of trauma facilities and the standards each facility is required to meet concerning personnel, equipment, resources, data collection, and organizational capabilities;
(ii)procedures for, standards for, and the duration of designation and revocation of designation of a trauma facility, including application procedures, site survey procedures, complaint investigation, and emergency suspension of designation;
(iii)operational procedures and criteria for the regional trauma advisory committees;
(iv)prehospital emergency medical services triage and treatment protocols for trauma patients;
(v)triage and treatment protocols for the transfer of injured persons between health care facilities;
(vi)requirements for collection and release of trauma register data;
(vii)quality improvement standards for emergency medical services and trauma care facilities; and
(viii)the duties, responsibilities, and functions of the trauma care committee created by 2-15-2216 and the regional trauma care advisory committees created pursuant to 50-6-411;
(b)designate trauma regions throughout Montana, taking into consideration geographic distance from available trauma care, transportation modalities available, population location and density, health care facility resources, historical patterns of patient referral, and other considerations relevant to optimum provision of emergency medical care;
(c)establish the procedure to be followed by a health care facility to appeal to the department a decision by the department pursuant to 50-6-410 affecting the facility’s designation as a trauma facility;
(d)specify the information that must be submitted to the department, including information from health care facilities, for statistical evaluation of the state and regional trauma care systems, planning prevention programs, assessing trauma-related educational priorities, and determining how trauma facilities and emergency medical services may comply with protocols and standards adopted by the department; and
(e)establish the electronic format and other standards that a health care facility trauma data system is required to meet in order to qualify as a hospital trauma register.
(3)The department shall submit a report to the legislature in accordance with 5-11-210 concerning the effectiveness of the trauma care system established under this part.
(4)This part does not restrict any other provisions of law allowing or requiring a health care facility or health care provider to provide health care services.