Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 40, October 5, 2024
Section 1051.3 - Applicability(a) This chapter applies to the following: (1) Health care providers.(2) Attending physicians.(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.The provisions of this §1051.3 amended February 6, 2004, effective 2/7/2004, 34 Pa.B. 677.