§ 16-41-10-3 — Notification of facilities

Indiana § 16-41-10-3

• Jurisdiction: Indiana
• Title 16: HEALTH
• Art. 41: PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES FOR THE
• Ch. 10: Communicable Disease: Exposure Notification for

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(a) Except as provided in subsection (b), if a
patient to whose blood or body fluids an emergency medical services
provider, health care provider, or a law enforcement officer is exposed
as described in section 2 of this chapter:
(1) is admitted to a medical facility following the exposure or is
located in a medical facility at the time of the exposure, a
physician designated by the medical facility shall, not more than
seventy-two (72) hours after the medical facility is notified under
section 2 of this chapter:
(A) cause a blood or body fluid specimen to be obtained from
the patient and testing to be performed for a serious
communicable disease of a type that has been
epidemiologically demonstrated to be transmittable by an
exposure of the kind experienced by the emergency medical
services provider, health care provider, or law enforcement
officer; and
(B) notify the medical director of the emergency medical
services provider's or health care provider's, employer or a
physician as designated under subsection (b) or (c); or
(2) is not described in subdivision (1), the exposed emergency
medical services provider, health care provider, or law
enforcement officer, the exposed emergency medical services
provider's, health care provider's, or law enforcement officer's
employer, or the state department may:
(A) arrange for testing of the patient as soon as possible; or
(B) petition the circuit or superior court having jurisdiction in
the county of the patient's residence or where the employer of
the exposed emergency medical services provider, health care
provider, or law enforcement officer has the employer's
principal office for an order requiring that the patient provide
a blood or body fluid specimen.
(b) An emergency medical services provider or health care provider
may, on the form described in section 2 of this chapter, designate a
physician other than the medical director of the emergency medical
services provider's employer or health care provider's employer to
receive the test results.
(c) A law enforcement officer shall, on the form described in section
2 of this chapter, designate a physician to receive the test results.
(d) The medical director or physician described in this section shall
notify the emergency medical services provider, health care provider,
or law enforcement officer of the test results not more than forty-eight
(48) hours after the medical director or physician receives the test
results.
[Pre-1993 Recodification Citation: 16-1-45-6.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-1993, SEC.24. Amended by P.L.186-1995, SEC.17; P.L.212-2003, SEC.8; P.L.97-2004, SEC.69; P.L.131-2018, SEC.3; P.L.112-2020, SEC.46.