50-16-702. Notification of exposure to infectious disease -- report of exposure to disease. (1) (a) If an emergency services provider acting in an official capacity attends a patient prior to or during transport or assists in transporting a patient to a health care facility and the emergency services provider has had an exposure, the emergency services provider may request the designated officer to submit the required form to the health care facility on the emergency services provider's behalf. The form must be provided for in rules adopted by the department and must include the emergency services provider's name and other information required by the department, including a description of the exposure. A designated officer shall submit the form verifying that there was an exposure.
     (b) If the exposure described on the form occurred in a manner that may allow infection by HIV, as defined in 50-16-1003, by a mode of transmission recognized by the centers for disease control, then submission of the form to the health care facility constitutes a request to the patient's physician to seek consent for performance of an HIV-related test pursuant to 50-16-1007(10).
     (c) Upon receipt of a request from a designated officer, the health care facility shall notify the designated officer in writing:
     (i) whether or not the patient was infected with an infectious disease;
     (ii) whether or not a determination has been made; and
     (iii) the name of the disease and the date of transport if the patient was infected.
     (d) The designated officer shall then notify the emergency services provider.
     (2) If a health care facility receiving a patient determines that the patient has an airborne infectious disease, the health care facility shall notify the designated officer and the department within 48 hours after the determination has been made. The department shall, within 24 hours, notify the designated officer of the emergency services provider who transported the patient.

     History: En. Sec. 2, Ch. 390, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 544, L. 1991; amd. Sec. 2, Ch. 476, L. 1993.