Amendment #23 to H3944

Overdose Reporting

Mrs. Campbell of Methuen moves to amend the bill in section 16 by adding the following 2 subsections:-

“(f) Upon discharge of a patient who experienced an opiate-related overdose, the acute-care hospital shall notify the patient’s primary care physician, if known, of the opiate-related overdose and any recommended further treatment.

(g) Upon discharge of a patient who experienced an opiate-related overdose, the acute-care hospital shall record the opiate-related overdose on the patient’s electronic medical record.”