(a) Administering and regulating ambulances;
(b) Training and licensing emergency medical services providers;
(c) Establishing and maintaining emergency medical systems, including trauma systems; and
(d) Maintaining the Oregon Trauma Registry for purposes related to trauma reimbursement, system quality assurance and cost efficiency.
(2) The duties vested in the authority under ORS 431A.050 to 431A.080 and ORS chapter 682 shall be performed by the program.
(3) The program shall be administered by a director.
(4) The director of the program shall apply moneys transferred to the program under ORS 442.870 to:
(a) Developing state and regional standards of care;
(b) Developing a statewide educational curriculum to teach standards of care;
(c) Implementing quality improvement programs;
(d) Creating a statewide data system for prehospital care; and
(e) Providing ancillary services to enhance this state’s emergency medical service system.
(5) The director of the program shall adopt rules for the Oregon Trauma Registry. Rules adopted under this subsection must establish:
(a) The information that must be reported by trauma centers to the program for inclusion in the Oregon Trauma Registry;
(b) The form and frequency of reporting information under paragraph (a) of this subsection; and
(c) Procedures and standards for the administration of the Oregon Trauma Registry.
(6) The director of the program may adopt rules establishing, from information maintained in the Oregon Trauma Registry, a registry of information related to brain injury trauma. [Formerly 431.623]
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