NRS 450B.790 - Hospital required to ensure that certain persons in need of emergency services are transferred to appropriate places in hospital within 30 minutes after arrival; civil and criminal liability.

NV Rev Stat § 450B.790 (2019) (N/A)

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1. Each hospital in this State which receives a person in need of emergency services and care who has been transported to the hospital by a provider of emergency medical services shall ensure that the person is transferred to a bed, chair, gurney or other appropriate place in the hospital to receive emergency services and care as soon as practicable, but not later than 30 minutes after the time at which the person arrives at the hospital.

2. This section does not create a duty of care and is not a ground for civil or criminal liability.

3. As used in this section:

(a) “Emergency services and care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 439B.410.

(b) “Hospital” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.012.

(c) “Provider of emergency medical services” means each operator of an ambulance and each fire-fighting agency which has a permit to operate pursuant to this chapter and which provides transportation for persons in need of emergency services and care to hospitals.

(Added to NRS by 2005, 1474; A 2007, 2372)

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