| In 1967, the Tennessee Medical
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| | counsel, could assess civil penalties for
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| Association (TMA) formed a Committee on
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| | violations of the law. In 1992, the law
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| Emergency Medical Services. The
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| | was amended to recognize licensure of
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| following year, Governor Buford Ellington
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| | emergency medical technicians and
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| convened an advisory committee to survey
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| | paramedics; but the term certification
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| ambulance services and medical
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| | still applied to emergency medical first
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| facilities. This survey formed the basis
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| | responders.
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| of a state plan for an EMS program.
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| | Following a national trend during the
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| The EMS Act of 1972 created the EMS
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| | 1980s, emphasis was placed on improving
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| Division in the Department of Public
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| | trauma care, with specially staffed
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| Health, and created a State EMS Advisory
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| | medical facilities designated as trauma
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| Council of thirteen members to advise the
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| | centers. The Elvis Presley Memorial
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| Division on program development and
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| | Trauma Center in Memphis was established
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| regulation. The first order of business
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| | in 1983 and designated as a Level 1
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| was to implement EMT training throughout
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| | Tennessee Trauma Center in 1985. The
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| the state. The first graduates of an
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| | process of designating statewide Trauma
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| 81-hour training program were state
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| | Centers throughout the state was
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| certified as emergency medical
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| | accomplished in 1988 through regulations
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| technicians as of May 1, 1972, and by the
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| | adopted in 1985 and 1987.
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| fall of 1972, EMS consultants had
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| | In 1995, the EMS Division established the
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| established training programs across the
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| | Tennessee Emergency Medical Services for
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| state. The EMS Act of 1973 authorized
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| | Children Program, through a $700,000
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| advanced life support training in
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| | federal grant under a contact with
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| Tennessee utilizing the term EMT-Advanced
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| | Vanderbilt University Childrens Hospital.
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| to define a paramedic. In 1980, the
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| | Standards for emergency medical
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| position of State EMS Training
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| | facilities and emergency medical services
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| Coordinator was officially designated.
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| | for children were required by legislation
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| The EMS Act of 1983 provided for the
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| | enacted in 1998.
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| transition of the EMS Advisory Council
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| | Early defibrillation programs for the
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| into a State EMS Board, the first
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| | public were promoted by legislation in
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| regulatory board for emergency medical
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| | 1998 and 1999. Emergency medical first
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| services programs in the United States.
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| | responders were authorized to use
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| The EMS Board was empowered to promulgate
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| | automated external defibrillators in
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| rules, conduct hearings, discipline
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| | 1994, and by 1997, all ambulances
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| emergency medical services and personnel,
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| | responding the scene of an emergency were
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| and to continue to oversee program
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| | required to be equipped with a
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| development. The 1983 Act formally used
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| | defibrillator.
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| the term EMT-Paramedic in the State law.
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| | Based on information supplied by Richard
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| The Commissioner of Health, through the
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| | Land of the Tennessee EMS Division.
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| EMS Division and the departments legal
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