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Authority

The Emergency Physicians Advisory Board is created by ordinance and is charged to oversee and regulate all medical aspects of the MedStar system which affect patient care.

Composition

The medical director from each 24-hour emergency department which is located within MedStar's service area is a member of the Emergency Physician's Advisory Board (EPAB).

Five additional licensed physicians with active specialties or subspecialties of benefit in developing standards for emergency pre-hospital care are appointed and serve at the pleasure of the Tarrant County Medical Society.

A Medical Director is appointed by EPAB to manage the day-to-day affairs of the board.  The Medical Director's office (EPAB) is located at 551 East Berry, Ft Worth, Texas, 76021 which is MedStar's office building.  It is staffed with an Assistant to the Medical Director (Jon Puryear), a Medical Control Associate (Daniel Ebbett), an Administrative Assistant (Kaye Sheets), and two part time Medical Control Associates (Julia Moore and Leigh Anne Bedrich).

Summary of Responsibilities, Powers, and Duties

  • Recommend medically appropriate response time standards

  • Establish standards for patient care, vehicles, and equipment

  • Develop medical protocols

  • Develop communication center protocols (EMD protocols)

  • Conduct medical audits

  • Administer written and practical examinations to license personnel

  • Develop and administer educational materials

  • Develop and administer quarterly mandatory CEs for the MedStar medics

  • Develop monthly CEs for the First Responder Agencies

  • Inspect vehicles, equipment, and supplies

  • Monitor response time performance

  • Develop standards to resolve response time exemptions

  • Conduct intensive reviews of system performance

  • Present written and oral reports regarding system status and performance

  • Approve standards for the operation of specialized mobile intensive care units

  • Approve standards for the operation of aero-medical transportation services

  • Approve standards for the operation of point-to-point wheel chair transport vehicles, stretcher vans or other types of patient transportation.

Board Meetings

Meetings are held quarterly on the second Wednesday of the month (February, May, August and November) beginning at noon:

Tarrant County Medical Society
3855 Tulsa Way
Fort Worth, Texas

Click on the below link to see the next meeting's agenda:

Meeting Agendas
         

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