Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1460
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/18/2019           .                                
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       The Committee on Health Policy (Book) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 43 - 110
    4  and insert:
    5  consistent with the standards identified by a nationally
    6  recognized guidelines-based organization approved by the agency
    7  that attest in an affidavit submitted to the agency that the
    8  hospital meets the named criteria, or those hospitals that
    9  attest in an affidavit submitted to the agency that the hospital
   10  is certified as an acute stroke ready center, a primary stroke
   11  center, or a comprehensive stroke center by a nationally
   12  recognized accrediting organization.
   13         (2)(a) If a hospital no longer chooses to be certified by a
   14  nationally recognized certifying organization or has not
   15  attained certification consistent with meet the criteria in
   16  subsection (1) as for an acute stroke ready center, a primary
   17  stroke center, a thrombectomy-capable stroke center, or a
   18  comprehensive stroke center, the hospital shall notify the
   19  agency and the agency shall immediately remove the hospital from
   20  the list of stroke centers.
   21         (3) The agency shall adopt by rule criteria for an acute
   22  stroke ready center, a primary stroke center, and a
   23  comprehensive stroke center which are substantially similar to
   24  the certification standards for the same categories of stroke
   25  centers of a nationally recognized accrediting organization.
   26         Section 2. Section 395.30381, Florida Statutes, is amended
   27  to read:
   28         395.30381 Statewide stroke registry.—
   29         (1) Subject to a specific appropriation, the department
   30  shall contract with a private entity to establish and maintain a
   31  statewide stroke registry to ensure that the stroke performance
   32  measures required to be submitted under subsection (2) are
   33  maintained and available for use to improve or modify the stroke
   34  care system, ensure compliance with standards and nationally
   35  recognized guidelines, and monitor stroke patient outcomes.
   36         (2) Each acute stroke ready center, primary stroke center,
   37  thrombectomy-capable stroke center, and comprehensive stroke
   38  center shall regularly report to the statewide stroke registry
   39  information containing specified by the department, including
   40  nationally recognized stroke performance measures.
   41         (3) The department shall require the contracted private
   42  entity to use a nationally recognized platform to collect data
   43  from each stroke center on the stroke performance measures
   44  required in subsection (2). The contracted private entity shall
   45  provide regular reports to the department on the data collected.
   46         (4) A No liability of any kind or character for damages or
   47  other relief shall not arise or be enforced against any acute
   48  stroke ready center, primary stroke center, thrombectomy-capable
   49  stroke center, or comprehensive stroke center by reason of
   50  having provided such information to the statewide stroke
   51  registry.
   52         Section 3. Section 395.3039, Florida Statutes, is amended
   53  to read:
   54         395.3039 Advertising restrictions.—A person may not
   55  advertise to the public, by way of any medium whatsoever, that a
   56  hospital is a state-listed primary or comprehensive stroke
   57  center unless the hospital has submitted documentation to the
   58  agency verifying that it is certified and meets the criteria
   59  provided notice to the agency as required in s. 395.3038 by this
   60  act.
   61         Section 4. Subsections (1), (3), and (4) of section
   62  395.3041, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   63         395.3041 Emergency medical services providers; triage and
   64  transportation of stroke victims to a stroke center.—
   65         (1) By June 1 of each year, the department shall send the
   66  list of acute stroke ready centers, primary stroke centers,
   67  thrombectomy-capable stroke centers, and comprehensive stroke
   68  centers to the medical director of each licensed emergency
   69  medical services provider in the this state.
   70         (3) The medical director of each
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   73  And the title is amended as follows:
   74         Delete line 15
   75  and insert:
   76         medical director of each