[HFDlist] Fwd: DPH Policies for Implementation of Nero's Law

Fri Aug 12 11:59:08 UTC 2022

  All, 

  Please see the provided protocol updates regarding transporting of  
police service animals. We will work on formalizing some training and  
acquiring the necessary equipment to make us compliant with the new  
Protocol. Be advised, until such a time that training and equipment  
has been completed, no transportation of K9's should take place.

Thanks,
Ethan
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   Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:06:20 +0000
   From: "Cluett, Scott (DPH)" <William.Cluett at mass.gov>
Subject: DPH Policies for Implementation of Nero's Law
     To: Russ Hall <enaiman at holdenma.gov>
     Cc: "Cluett, Scott (DPH)" <william.cluett at mass.gov>, "Lewis,  
Susan (DPH)" <susan.k.lewis at mass.gov>

   Dear EMS Colleagues,

   The Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Office of Emergency  
Medical Services (Department) is issuing today the following documents  
for implementing Chapter 23 of the Acts of 2022 (better known as  
Nero’s Law), as listed below. The Nero’s Law statute required the  
Department to develop and issue these attached policies, and for  
ambulance treatment and transport of police dogs to take place in  
conformance with these policies.

   _Implementation Period_: All ambulance services have 6 months to  
come into compliance with Nero’s Law and policies (or request and  
obtain a waiver), but services that can complete training their  
personnel and come into full compliance with the attached policies,  
may proceed to provide care and transport in accordance with them as  
soon as they are ready. Also during this period, the Department is  
circulating today, in a separate email, a proposed Administrative  
Requirement (AR) for minimum equipment for BLS care and transport of  
police dogs, for a 60-day ambulance service licensee comment period.  
Once that comment period is over, and comments are reviewed, the  
Department will make any updates as appropriate and send out to this  
group a final AR for the minimum equipment list.

   _Attached documents_:

   *    Protocols for EMS Police Dog Care and Transport

     *      Note that the first page of the protocols set out the  
legal/policy parameters of EMS care and transport of police dogs.

     *      The Department thanks the veterinarians and police K9  
experts who contributed to the development of these Protocols.

   *    New AR 2-270, Minimum Standards for EMS Police Dog Treatment  
and Transport

   *    Statewide Police Dog Point-of-Entry Plan

   *    Updated AR 2-212, EMT Continuing Education Standards, which  
has been revised to include a cap on the number of credits an EMT can  
submit each recertification cycle for police dog training courses.

   *    Updated AR 1-522G, Decontamination and Sterilization Cleaning  
Procedures for Ambulance Equipment and Interiors

     *      OEMS had a very old AR on this topic in general: We have  
completely updated it, and also added reference to Nero’s law

   _Waiver requirement and process_: Nero’s Law allows for ambulance  
services to apply for waivers from having to do police dogs  
transports. Ambulance services may submit waiver requests for Nero’s  
Law the same way they request all their waivers now: in by writing,  
addressed to the OEMS Director. OEMS will review Nero’s Law waiver  
requests the same way it reviews all waiver requests - in accordance  
with 105 CMR 170.275 - and then issue a written response, either  
approving or denying the waiver.

   For any questions regarding these standards, please contact   
OEMS.Ambulance at mass.gov[1].

   Thank you, and please be safe.

   Scott

   W. SCOTT CLUETT III, NRP

   Director

   Office of Emergency Medical Services

   Bureau of Health Care Safety and Quality

   Massachusetts Department of Public Health

   67 Forest Street

   Marlborough MA 01752

   Mobile - 857-348-3163

   scott.cluett at mass.gov[2]

   http://www.mass.gov/dph/oems

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    Ethan Naiman
   Lieutenant/EMS Coordinator
   Holden Fire Department
   1370 Main Street
   Holden, MA 01520
   Office: 508-210-5659
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