302.388 Prisoner medical records.
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302.388 Prisoner medical records.
(1)Definitions. In this section:
(a)“Health care provider” has the meaning given in s. 146.81
(a)to
(p).
(b)“Jail” means a jail or house of correction.
(c)“Jailer” means the sheriff, superintendent or other keeper of a jail.
(d)“Medical staff” means health care providers employed by the department or a jail.
(e)“Patient health care records” has the meaning given in s. 146.81
(4).
(f)“Prisoner” means any person who is either arrested, incarcerated, imprisoned or otherwise detained in a jail or prison but does not include any of the following:
1. Any person who is serving a sentence of detention under s. 973.03
(4)unless the person is in the county jail under s. 973.03
(c).
2. Any child held in custody under ss. 48.19 to 48.21 .
3. Any child participating in the mother-young child care program under s. 301.049 .
4. A juvenile held in a jail under s. 938.209 .
(g)“Receiving institution intake staff” means the warden or superintendent or his or her designee, if a prisoner is transferred to a prison, or the jailer or his or her designee, if a prisoner is transferred to a jail.
(2)Health summary form.
(a)The department shall provide each jailer a standardized form for recording the medical conditions and history of prisoners being transferred to the department or another county’s jail. Except as provided in pars.
(b)and
(bm), jail medical staff shall complete the form and provide it to the receiving institution intake staff at the time of each such transfer.
(b)If the jail does not have medical staff on duty at the time of a transfer, the jailer or his or her designee shall complete as much of the form as possible and provide it to the receiving institution intake staff at the time of the transfer. The jailer shall ensure that all of the following occur within 24 hours after the transfer: