Hospitals, health clinics and ambulance services – Display of sign warning of crime for assaulting medical professional – Reporting for assaults on medical care providers.

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A. Every hospital, health clinic and ambulance service shall display at all times in a prominent place a printed sign with a minimum height of twenty (20) inches and a minimum width of fourteen (14) inches, with each letter to be a minimum of one-fourth (1/4) inch in height, which shall read as follows:

WARNING: ASSAULTING A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL WHO IS ENGAGED IN THE PERFORMANCE OF HIS OR HER OFFICIAL DUTIES IS A SERIOUS CRIME. Section 650.4 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

B. Every hospital, health clinic and ambulance service shall report all assaults on medical care providers to the State Department of Health on an annual basis. The State Department of Health shall have rulemaking authority to implement the provisions of this section.

C. The Department of Health shall not make public any identifiable information in regard to facility, individual or location of assaults.

Added by Laws 2020, c. 68, § 4, eff. Nov. 1, 2020.


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