SB177,,4343(f) The department or its contracted entity shall create and make available to fatality review teams a confidentiality agreement to be used by fatality review team members to ensure confidentiality consistent with this section.
SB177,,4444(g) The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.
SB177,,4545(3) Fatality review teams; purpose, duties, membership, and record access. (a) Fatality review teams shall have the purpose of gathering information concerning reviewable deaths to examine the risk factors and circumstances leading to reviewable deaths and understand how the deaths could have been prevented through all of the following:
SB177,,46461. Identification of recommendations for cross-sector, system-level policy and practice changes to address the identified risk factors and prevent future reviewable deaths.
SB177,,47472. Promotion of cooperation and coordination among agencies involved in understanding the causes of reviewable deaths or in providing services to surviving family members.
SB177,,4848(b) 1. If established, each fatality review team shall do all of the following:
SB177,,4949a. Establish and implement a protocol for the fatality review team and, to the extent the department or its contracted entity is involved with the type of review undertaken, consult with the department or its contracted entity regarding the protocol.
SB177,,5050b. Collect and maintain data to the extent requested by the department or its contracted entity for the type of review undertaken.
SB177,,5151c. Create strategies and make and track the implementation of recommendations for the prevention and reduction of reviewable deaths in the area served by the fatality review team.
SB177,,5252d. Evaluate the fatality review team’s review process, interagency collaboration, and development and implementation of recommendations to ensure adherence to the purpose described in par. (a).
SB177,,53532. A fatality review team may address a reviewable death that occurred in the area served by the fatality review team or that relates to a resident of the area served by the fatality review team if the incident or death occurred elsewhere in the state.
SB177,,5454(c) When conducting a fatality review under this section, a fatality review team may be provided with information from the records held by any of the following, if the records pertain to a person or incident within the scope of the review:
SB177,,55551. The department of health services or a local health department.
SB177,,56562. The department of children and families.
SB177,,57573. A law enforcement agency.
SB177,,58584. A medical examiner or coroner.
SB177,,59595. A treatment provider for substance use or mental health.
SB177,,60606. A hospital or health care provider.
SB177,,61617. Emergency medical services, including a fire department.
SB177,,62628. A Women, Infants, and Children program under s. 253.06.
SB177,,63639. The department of corrections.
SB177,,646410. A district attorney’s office.
SB177,,656511. A circuit or municipal court.
SB177,,666612. A social services agency.
SB177,,676713. Child protective services.
SB177,,686814. A school or university.
SB177,,696915. If the fatality review team is an overdose fatality review team or a suicide fatality review team, prescription drug monitoring program records.
SB177,,707016. Any other agency or organization identified as necessary for the review by a specific fatality review team.
SB177,,7171(d) If established, the members of a fatality review team may include any of the following types of individuals, organizations, agencies, and areas of expertise: