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To enact section 4765.391 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
permit authorized paramedics to administer | 2 |
immunizations for influenza to firefighters or | 3 |
emergency medical technicians. | 4 |
Section 1. That section 4765.391 of the Revised Code be | 5 |
enacted to read as follows: | 6 |
Sec. 4765.391. (A) The medical director or cooperating | 7 |
physician advisory board of each emergency medical service | 8 |
organization may authorize one or more emergency medical | 9 |
technicians-paramedic within the organization to administer | 10 |
immunizations for influenza to either of the following: | 11 |
(1) A full-time paid firefighter, part-time paid firefighter, | 12 |
or volunteer firefighter; | 13 |
(2) An emergency medical technician-basic, emergency medical | 14 |
technician-intermediate, or paramedic. | 15 |
(B) The medical director or cooperating physician advisory | 16 |
board of each emergency medical service organization shall | 17 |
establish written protocols and training necessary for a paramedic | 18 |
to administer an immunization for influenza under this section. A | 19 |
paramedic administering an immunization under this section shall | 20 |
do so in accordance with the protocols and training. | 21 |
(C) For each immunization administered under this section, | 22 |
the paramedic administering the immunization shall, not later than | 23 |
thirty days after the immunization is administered, do either of | 24 |
the following: | 25 |
(1) Provide notice of the immunization administration to the | 26 |
board of health of the city or general health district in which | 27 |
the individual receiving the immunization resides or, if there is | 28 |
no board of health for that district, the authority having the | 29 |
duties of a board of health under section 3709.05 of the Revised | 30 |
Code; | 31 |
(2) Submit the immunization administration information to the | 32 |
state immunization registry maintained by the department of | 33 |
health. | 34 |