Senate Sponsors: SYVERSON-RONEN-MUNOZ-OBAMA-SILVERSTEIN. House Sponsors: OSTERMAN-BUGIELSKI-BURKE-MCAULIFFE-BROSNAHAN Short description: HEALTH FACILITY-NOTIFICATION Synopsis of Bill as introduced: Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Adds firefighters and emergency medical technicians to the list of emergency care providers that a hospital must notify when the care providers have treated a patient with a dangerous communicable or infectious disease. Requires the ambulance run sheet to contain all municipal or private agency personnel who have provided any pre-hospital care immediately prior to transport of a patient with a dangerous communicable or infectious disease. Adds the designated infectious disease control officer of a municipal fire department or fire protection district to the list of those persons responsible for contacting all personnel involved in the transport of the patient. SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Removes the term "paramedics" from the list of emergency care providers to which a hospital must give notification concerning a patient's dangerous communicable or infectious disease (but retains the term "emergency medical technicians"). Provides for an attachment to the ambulance run sheet containing specified information. HOUSE AMENDMENT NO. 1. Deletes everything after the enacting clause. Amends the Hospital Licensing Act. Adds firefighters and emergency medical technicians to the list of emergency care providers that a hospital must notify when the care providers have treated a patient with a dangerous communicable or infectious disease. Requires, except in municipalities with a population of over 1,000,000, an attachment to the ambulance run sheet that contains all municipal or private agency personnel who have provided any pre-hospital care immediately prior to transport of a patient with a dangerous communicable or infectious disease. Provides that, in municipalities with a population of over 1,000,000, the ambulance run sheet must contain the company number or unit designation number for any fire department personnel who have provided any pre-hospital care immediately prior to transport. Adds the designated infectious disease control officer of a municipal fire department or fire protection district to the list of persons responsible for contacting all personnel involved in the transport of the patient. Last action on Bill: PUBLIC ACT.............................. 92-0363 Last action date: AUG-15-2001 Location: Senate Amendments to Bill: AMENDMENTS ADOPTED: HOUSE - 1 SENATE - 1 END OF INQUIRY Full Text Bill Status