N.Y. Public Health Law § 3003-B – Availability of air transport ambulance service providers to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer blood transfusions | Midpage
3003-B
N.Y. Public Health Law § 3003-B
Availability of air transport ambulance service providers to store and distribute blood and initiate and administer blood transfusions
Effective Dec 31, 2021
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1. As used in this section, "air transport services" shall mean emergency medical care and the transportation of sick or injured persons by aircraft to, from, or between general hospitals or other health care facilities.
2. An ambulance service provider licensed under this article that provides air transport services may store and distribute human blood and blood products at all their facilities and initiate and administer human blood and blood product transfusions while providing air transport services.
3. Notwithstanding section five hundred seventy-four of this chapter, any ambulance service provider licensed pursuant to this article that provides air transport services, may store and distribute human blood and blood products in accordance with section thirty-one hundred of this chapter; provided, however, an ambulance service provider shall meet or exceed all standards for the storage of blood products of the United States Food and Drug Administration.