Section 1140. Provision of patient care documentation

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EMS personnel and EMS agencies shall provide the receiving medical facility or transporting EMS agency with a copy of the prehospital patient care report for each patient treated at the time of patient transfer. Should EMS personnel be unable to provide the full prehospital patient care report at the time of patient transfer, EMS personnel shall provide an abbreviated documented report with the critical EMS findings and actions at the time of patient transfer and the full prehospital patient care report shall be provided to the accepting facility within 12 hours.

Historical Notes

Derived from Volume 19, Issue 16, eff. May 6, 2003; amended, Virginia Register Volume 29, Issue 01, eff. October 10, 2012; Volume 31, Issue 03, November 24, 2014.

Statutory Authority

§§ 32.1-12 and 32.1-111.4 of the Code of Virginia.

                    
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