Ohio Code 4765.50 – Unauthorized practice
(A) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, no person shall represent that the person is a first responder, an emergency medical technician-basic or EMT-basic, an emergency medical technician-intermediate or EMT-I, or an emergency medical technician-paramedic or paramedic unless appropriately certified under section 4765.30 of the Revised Code.
Terms Used In Ohio Code 4765.50
- Adult: means involving a patient who is not a pediatric patient. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Emergency medical service: includes such services performed before or during any transport of a patient, including transports between hospitals and transports to and from helicopters. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Emergency medical service organization: means a public or private organization using first responders, EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, or paramedics, or a combination of first responders, EMTs-basic, EMTs-I, and paramedics, to provide emergency medical services. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- EMT-basic: means an individual who holds a current, valid certificate issued under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- EMT-I: means an individual who holds a current, valid certificate issued under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- First responder: means an individual who holds a current, valid certificate issued under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- paramedic: means an individual who holds a current, valid certificate issued under section 4765. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Pediatric: means involving a patient who is less than sixteen years of age. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Physician: means an individual who holds a current, valid license issued under Chapter 4731 of the Revised Code authorizing the practice of medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Trauma care: means the assessment, diagnosis, transportation, treatment, or rehabilitation of a trauma victim by emergency medical service personnel or by a physician, nurse, physician assistant, respiratory therapist, physical therapist, chiropractor, occupational therapist, speech-language pathologist, audiologist, or psychologist licensed to practice as such in this state or another jurisdiction. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Trauma center: means all of the following:
(1) Any hospital that is verified by the American college of surgeons as an adult or pediatric trauma center;
(2) Any hospital that is operating as an adult or pediatric trauma center under provisional status pursuant to section 3727. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- trauma patient: means a person who has sustained a traumatic injury. See Ohio Code 4765.01
- Volunteer: means a person who provides services either for no compensation or for compensation that does not exceed the actual expenses incurred in providing the services or in training to provide the services. See Ohio Code 4765.01
(B)(1) No person shall operate an emergency medical services training program without a certificate of accreditation issued under section 4765.17 of the Revised Code.
(2) No person shall operate an emergency medical services continuing education program without a certificate of approval issued under section 4765.17 of the Revised Code.
(C) No public or private entity shall advertise or disseminate information leading the public to believe that the entity is an emergency medical service organization, unless that entity actually provides emergency medical services.
(D) A person who is performing the functions of a first responder, EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic under the authority of the laws of a jurisdiction other than this state, who is employed by or serves as a volunteer with an emergency medical service organization based in that state, and provides emergency medical services to or transportation of a patient in this state is not in violation of division (A) of this section.
A person who is performing the functions of a first responder, EMT-basic, EMT-I, or paramedic under a reciprocal agreement authorized by section 4765.10 of the Revised Code is not in violation of division (A) of this section.
(E) On and after November 3, 2002, no physician shall purposefully do any of the following:
(1) Admit an adult trauma patient to a hospital that is not an adult trauma center for the purpose of providing adult trauma care;
(2) Admit a pediatric trauma patient to a hospital that is not a pediatric trauma center for the purpose of providing pediatric trauma care;
(3) Fail to transfer an adult or pediatric trauma patient to an adult or pediatric trauma center in accordance with applicable federal law, state law, and adult or pediatric trauma protocols and patient transfer agreements adopted under section 3727.09 of the Revised Code.
Last updated April 27, 2023 at 2:05 PM