Pennsylvania Code
Title 28 - HEALTH AND SAFETY
Part VII - Emergency Medical Services
Subpart B - Matters Anciliary to Emergency Medical Services Systems
Chapter 1051 - OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DO-NOT-RECUSCITATE ORDERS
GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1051.3 - Applicability
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 44, November 2, 2024
(a) This chapter applies to the following:
(b) This chapter neither compels nor prohibits health care provider compliance with an out-of-hospital DNR order in a hospital, except that in a hospital an EMS provider shall comply with an out-of-hospital DNR order in the course of providing care to or transportation of an out-of-hospital DNR patient on behalf of an ambulance service.
(c) This chapter does not regulate the issuance of or compliance with a DNR order issued in a hospital to be followed in that hospital.
(d) This chapter permits EMS providers to comply with out-of-hospital DNR orders in all settings other than a hospital, except as set forth in subsection (b), including personal care facilities and all other health care facilities.
