2009 West Virginia Code
CHAPTER 16. PUBLIC HEALTH
ARTICLE 4C. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ACT.
§16-4C-22 Transportation of unconscious or otherwise uncommunicative patients.
§16-4C-22. Transportation of unconscious or otherwise
uncommunicative patients.(a) Emergency medical service personnel shall transport critically ill or injured, unconscious or otherwise uncommunicative patients to the medical facility designated by the medical command physician.
(b) No person may have the right to direct emergency medical service personnel to transport a patient to a specific medical facility unless the person is the legal guardian, parent of a minor or has power of attorney for the critically injured or ill patient.
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