50-16-703. Notification of precautions after exposure to infectious disease. (1) After a patient is transported to a health care facility, a physician shall inform the health care facility within 24 hours if the physician determines that the transported patient has an infectious disease.
     (2) The health care facility shall orally notify within 48 hours after the time of diagnosis and notify in writing within 72 hours after diagnosis the designated officer of the emergency services provider who attended the patient prior to or during transport or who transported the patient with the infectious disease.
     (3) The notification must state the disease to which the emergency services provider was exposed and the appropriate medical precautions and treatment that the exposed person needs to take.

     History: En. Sec. 3, Ch. 390, L. 1989; amd. Sec. 3, Ch. 476, L. 1993.