945.6032 Quality management program requirements. - Florida Statutes

945.6032 Quality management program requirements.

   (1) The authority shall appoint a medical review committee pursuant to s. 766.101 to provide oversight for the Department of Corrections’ inmate health care quality management program. The authority shall also designate one of its members to serve on the Department of Corrections’ medical review committee in order to ensure coordination between the department and the authority with regard to issues of quality management and to enhance the authority’s oversight of the Department of Corrections’ quality management system.

   (2) The authority’s medical review committee shall review amendments to the Department of Corrections’ inmate health care quality management program prior to implementation by the department.

   (3) The findings and recommendations of a medical review committee created by the authority or the department pursuant to s. 766.101 are confidential and exempt from the provisions of s. 119.07(1) and s. 24(a), Art. I of the State Constitution, and any proceedings of the committee are exempt from the provisions of s. 286.011 and s. 24(b), Art. I of the State Constitution.

History. s. 4, ch. 90-83; s. 32, ch. 91-201; s. 5, ch. 91-429; s. 4, ch. 92-47; s. 2, ch. 94-73; s. 449, ch. 96-406; s. 119, ch. 97-237.