311.7741 Report of complication, adverse event, medical treatment, or death

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following abortion.

(1)A hospital, healthcare facility, or individual physician shall file a written report

with the cabinet regarding each patient who comes under the hospital's,

healthcare facility's, or physicians care and reports any complication or

adverse event as defined under KRS 311.7731, requires medical treatment, or

suffers a death that the attending physician, hospital staff, or facility staff has

reason to believe is a primary or secondary result of an abortion. The reports

shall be completed by the hospital, healthcare facility, or attending physician

who treated the patient, signed by the attending physician, and transmitted to

the cabinet within thirty

(30)days of the discharge or death of the patient

treated for the complication or adverse event.

(2)Each report of a complication or adverse event as defined in KRS 311.7731,

medical treatment, or death following abortion required under this section shall

contain at minimum the information required by KRS 213.101.

(3)Reports required under this section shall not contain:

(a)The name of the patient;

(b)Common identifiers such as Social Security number or motor vehicle

operators license number; or

(c)Other information or identifiers that would make it possible to identify, in

any manner or under any circumstances, a patient who has obtained an

abortion and subsequently suffered an abortion complication or adverse

event as defined in KRS 311.7731.