Medical Director Services

The Vendor is required to provide consultation and direction in all areas of pre-hospital emergency and non-emergency medical services.
- In general, the medical director will be responsible to provide: coordination and cooperation with base station physicians, coordination with medical facilities and post-acute care facilities and other east valley agencies, continuing education, medical oversight for EMS programs, program review, and administrative and legislative assistance.
- Medical direction to the department healthcare provider’s continuing education program.  
- Serve as a consultant to the department for ongoing evaluation of the department’s emergency and non-emergency medical services programs.  
- Assist the department training division or assigned program manager with research development and continuous quality improvement for all respective programs and/or pilot   projects.  
- Participate in the cooperative delivery of medical direction with the administrative base station medical director and other receiving facilities for resolution of pre-hospital care issues.  
- Represent the department at local, regional, state, and national conferences, seminars, and meetings as assigned.
- Provide input in the administrative and legislative processes affecting the local, regional and state pre-hospital, healthcare and fire-based ems systems.  
- Annually develop, review, and revise:
• The department emergency and medical services policies and procedures.
• Non-emergency medical services policies and procedures.
• Emergency medical dispatch protocols (“algorithms”).
- Provide medical expertise, development and assistance in designing and obtaining research grants associated with the delivery of emergent and non-emergent medical services.
- When necessary, provide medical legal expertise for claims brought against the department or one of its pre-hospital providers; note that this service may require additional funding for professional services at a rate separate from this agreement.
- Oversee all aspects of public access defibrillation program, including training, emergency medical services coordination, protocol approval, standing orders, communication, protocols and automated external defibrillator deployment strategies.
- Maintain the privacy and confidentially of any protected health information examined or obtained during the course of performance of this agreement and execute a business associate agreement as required under the health insurance portability and accountability act of 1996 (HIPAA).  
- Assist with development and oversight of the department vaccine and immunization programs.
- Provide support and guidance to the department infectious control officer.
- Assist with the development and implementation of mobile integrated health initiatives.
- Provide medical direction for county pandemic response including prescribing and distribution oversight of mesas pharmaceutical cache.
- Provide oversight to toxicology paramedic program and team’s paramedic program.
- Prescribe and assist with acquiring pharmaceuticals distributed out of fire station medication distribution machines.
- Paramedic program: contractor will provide medical direction for the city fire and medical department’s paramedic program (hereinafter, the “program”), including performance of the following specific services:
• Review and approval of the educational content of the program curriculum to ensure appropriateness, medical accuracy, and reflection of current evidence-informed prehospital or emergency care practice.
• Setting the required minimum number of patient contacts and procedures for each student in the program, in accordance with the committee on accreditation for ems professionals (CoAEMSP) standards.
• Review and approval of the instruments and processes used to evaluate students in didactic, laboratory, clinical, and field internships.
• Review the progress of each student throughout the program and assist in determining appropriate corrective action, when necessary.
• Ensure the competence of each graduate of the program in the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective domains.
• Engage in cooperative involvement with the program director.
• Ensure educational interaction of physicians with students.
- Contract Period/Term: 3 years
- Questions/Inquires Deadline: March 19, 2025