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This bill establishes a licensing framework for community paramedicine services and the clinicians who provide them, defining "community paramedicine" as the practice by emergency medical services providers in out-of-hospital settings to evaluate, advise, and treat patients to prevent or improve medical conditions. It mandates that both "community paramedicine clinicians," who are licensed emergency medical services personnel with specialized training for expanded roles in proactive and preventive healthcare, and "community paramedicine services," which are licensed ambulance or nontransporting emergency medical services authorized to provide these specialized services, must be licensed by the Emergency Medical Services' Board. The bill also outlines minimum requirements for licensure, including specialized training, demonstrated trustworthiness and competence, holding a separate emergency medical services license for clinicians, and for services, having medical directors, complying with background check requirements, providing mandatory reporter training, and meeting specific licensing standards for personnel, services, and record-keeping, with the board directed to adopt detailed rules governing these qualifications and standards.

Health and Social Services

https://legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/display_ps.asp?LD=2133&snum=132