42 U.S.C. § 300ff–132 — Routine notifications with respect to airborne infectious diseases in victims assisted

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 111-87 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 189 words · no verdicts yet

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This law makes medical facilities tell emergency responders if a patient they brought in has an airborne infectious disease. The facility must notify within 48 hours.

(a) Routine notification of designated officer (1) If emergency response employees bring an emergency victim to a medical facility, and that facility determines the victim has an airborne infectious disease, the facility must notify the designated officer for those employees. (2) If the victim instead dies at or before reaching the facility, the facility that determines the cause of death must notify that same designated officer if it finds the victim had an airborne infectious disease. (b) Whichever of these two notifications applies, the facility must send it as soon as practical, and no later than 48 hours after making the determination.

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(a) Routine notification of designated officer

(1) Determination by treating facility

If a victim of an emergency is transported by emergency response employees to a medical facility and the medical facility makes a determination that the victim has an airborne infectious disease, the medical facility shall notify the designated officer of the emergency response employees who transported the victim to the medical facility of the determination.

(2) Determination by facility ascertaining cause of death

If a victim of an emergency is transported by emergency response employees to a medical facility and the victim dies at or before reaching the medical facility, the medical facility ascertaining the cause of death shall notify the designated officer of the emergency response employees who transported the victim to the initial medical facility of any determination by the medical facility that the victim had an airborne infectious disease.

(b) Requirement of prompt notification

With respect to a determination described in paragraph (1) or (2) of subsection (a), the notification required in each of such paragraphs shall be made as soon as is practicable, but not later than 48 hours after the determination is made.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVI, § 2695A, as added Pub. L. 111–87, § 13, Oct. 30, 2009, 123 Stat. 2898.)

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1944Enacted · Pub. L. 111-87 · 123 Stat. 2898

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