2006 Utah Code - 26-2-23 — Records required to be kept by health care institutions -- Information filed with local registrar and department.

     26-2-23.   Records required to be kept by health care institutions -- Information filed with local registrar and department.
     (1) (a) All administrators or other persons in charge of hospitals, nursing homes, or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinements, or are committed by law, shall record all the personal and statistical information about patients of their institutions as required in certificates prescribed by this chapter.
     (b) This information shall be recorded for collection at the time of admission of the patients and shall be obtained from the patient, if possible, and if not, the information shall be secured in as complete a manner as possible from other persons acquainted with the facts.
     (2) When a dead body or dead fetus is released or disposed of by an institution, the person in charge of the institution shall keep a record showing the name of the deceased, date of death, name and address of the person to whom the dead body or dead fetus is released, and date of removal from the institution. If final disposal is by the institution, the date, place, manner of disposition, and the name of the person authorizing disposition shall be recorded.
     (3) Not later than the tenth day of each month, the administrator of each institution shall cause to be sent to the local registrar and the department a list of all births, deaths, fetal deaths, and induced abortions occurring in his institution during the preceding month. The lists shall be in the form prescribed by the state registrar.

Amended by Chapter 86, 2000 General Session