Duty of medical facility or county coroner or medical examiner to notify designated officer if victim transported has infectious disease; time and contents for notification.

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1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 441A.195, if a victim of an emergency is transported by emergency response employees to a medical facility and the medical facility determines that the victim has an infectious disease, the medical facility shall notify a designated officer of the emergency response employees of that determination.

2. If a victim of an emergency is transported by emergency response employees to a medical facility, the victim dies at or before reaching the medical facility and the county coroner or medical examiner of the county in which the victim dies, as applicable, determines the cause of death of the victim, the county coroner or medical examiner shall notify a designated officer of the emergency response employees of any determination by the county coroner or medical examiner that the victim had an infectious disease.

3. The medical facility to which the victim is transported or the county coroner or medical examiner of the county in which the victim dies, as applicable, shall cause the notification required by subsection 1 or 2, as appropriate, to be made as soon as practicable, but not later than 48 hours after the determination is made.

4. The notification must include, without limitation:

(a) The name of the infectious disease to which the emergency response employees may have been exposed; and

(b) The date on which the victim of the emergency was transported by the emergency response employees to the medical facility.

(Added to NRS by 2009, 911)


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