2021 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 629 - Healing Arts Generally
NRS 629.043 - Provider of health care to report persons having injuries inflicted during existence of state of emergency or declaration of disaster or illnesses contracted during public health emergency or other health event; immunity of certain persons from civil action for disclosure.
1. To the extent feasible, every provider of health care to whom any person comes or is brought for the treatment of an injury which the provider concludes was inflicted during the existence of a state of emergency or declaration of disaster pursuant to NRS 414.070 or an illness which the provider concludes was contracted during a public health emergency or other health event pursuant to NRS 439.970 shall submit a written report electronically to the State Disaster Identification Coordination Committee on a form prescribed by the State Disaster Identification Coordination Committee.
2. The report required by subsection 1 must include, without limitation:
(a) The name, address, telephone number and electronic mail address of the person treated, if known;
(b) The location where the person was treated; and
(c) The character or extent of the injuries or illness of the person treated.
3. A provider of health care and his or her agents and employees are immune from any civil action for any disclosures made in good faith in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 1079)
