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CHA Clarifies Hospitals’ Legal Requirement for Notifying First Responders About Disease Exposure

For emergency department managers, infection control officers

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CHA has recently received several requests for information about laws that require hospitals to notify first responders who may have been exposed to a communicable disease while caring for a patient. State law requires a hospital’s infection control officer to notify the employer of a prehospital care professional (emergency medical technician, paramedic, fire fighter, peace officer, and others) if a patient has a specified communicable disease that may have been transmitted to the first responder. 

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