Title 18, Title 18: Health

§ 903. Authorization for provision of emergency medical services Notwithstanding any other provision of law, including provisions of 26 V.S.A. chapter 23, persons who are affiliated with an affiliated agency and licensed to provide emergency medical treatment pursuant to the requ…

§ 904. Administrative provisions (a) In order to carry out the purposes and responsibilities of this chapter, the Department of Health may contract for the provision of specific services. (b) The Secretary of Human Services, upon the recommendation of the Commissioner of Health, …

§ 906. Emergency Medical Services Division; responsibilities To implement the policy of section 901 of this chapter, the Department of Health shall be responsible for: (1) Developing and implementing minimum standards for training emergency medical personnel in basic life support…

§ 906a. Relicensure; grace period A person certified or licensed as an emergency medical provider shall have six months after his or her certification or license has expired to resubmit the necessary information for renewal of the certificate or license. (Added 2011, No. 155 (Adj…

§ 906c. Veterans and service members returning from deployment; prior positions (a) As used in this section: (1) “Service member” means an individual who is an active duty member of: (A) the U.S. Armed Forces; (B) a reserve component of the U.S. Armed Forces; (C) the U.S. Coast G…

§ 906d. Renewal requirements; sunset review (a) Not less than once every five years, the Department shall review emergency medical personnel continuing education and other continuing competency requirements. The review results shall be in writing and address the following: (1) th…

§ 907. Automated external defibrillators (a) As used in this section: (1) “Automated external defibrillator (AED)” means a medical device approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, that: (A) is capable of recognizing the presence or absence of ventricular fibrillation or …

§ 908. Emergency Medical Services Special Fund (a)(1) The Emergency Medical Services Special Fund is established pursuant to 32 V.S.A. chapter 7, subchapter 5 comprising revenues received by the Department from the Fire Safety Special Fund, pursuant to 32 V.S.A. § 8557(a), that a…

§ 909. EMS Advisory Committee; EMS Education Council (a) The Emergency Medical Services Advisory Committee shall advise the Department of Health on matters relating to the delivery of emergency medical services (EMS) in Vermont. (b) The Committee shall comprise the following memb…

§ 991. Establishment of Birth Information Network (a) The Commissioner of Health shall establish a statewide birth information network designed to identify newborns who have specified health conditions that may respond to early intervention and treatment by the health care system…

§ 992. Birth Information Network; confidentiality (a) The Birth Information Network shall be designed to protect the confidentiality of the individuals and families involved. Information from the Network shall be used only in ways that reflect responsible public health protocols …

§ 1001. Reports to Commissioner of Health (a) When a physician, health care provider, nurse practitioner, nurse, physician assistant, or school health official has reason to believe that a person is sick or has died of a diagnosed or suspected disease, identified by the Departmen…

§ 1004. Report by physician; quarantine A physician who knows or suspects that a person whom he or she has been called to attend is sick or has died of a communicable disease dangerous to the public health shall immediately quarantine and report to the health officer the place wh…

§ 1004a. Quarantine The Commissioner of Health shall have the power to quarantine a person diagnosed with or suspected of having a disease dangerous to the public health. (Added 1979, No. 60, § 2.)

§ 1007. Quarantined patient leaving hospital; report When a patient who has a communicable disease subject to quarantine leaves a hospital or institution without the consent of the authorities of such hospital or institution, the physician or other person in charge of such a hosp…

§ 1008. Vaccines, antibiotics, antiserums, and other agents; purchase and distribution; penalties (a) The Department is authorized to procure vaccines, antibiotics, antiserums, and such other agents as may be necessary for the prevention and diagnosis of infectious and communicab…

§ 1010. Ophthalmia neonatorum The Department and the Secretary of Human Services may make such rules as they deem necessary for the prevention of blindness caused by the disease known as ophthalmia neonatorum, and they may furnish, at the expense of the State, such prophylactic o…

§ 1041. Reports by physicians and certain others A physician who is consulted by a person infected with tuberculosis in any form shall submit the name and address of such person to the Commissioner upon such forms as he or she may furnish, with such other facts as may be required…

§ 1042. Record of cases; instructions The Commissioner shall keep an accurate record of cases reported as provided in sections 1007 and 1041 of this title. Upon being notified of a case mentioned in sections 1007 and 1041 of this title, the Commissioner shall take such action as …

§ 1043. Investigation; educational campaign; report The Commissioner shall investigate the prevalence and extent of tuberculosis and other chronic respiratory diseases in the State and shall adopt and make use of means for educating the people of the State in respect to the cause…

§ 1047. Indigent persons with respiratory diseases Persons who have tuberculosis and other chronic respiratory diseases, who are without the means to obtain adequate care and treatment for such diseases, shall be deemed indigent persons for the purposes of this subchapter. (Amend…

§ 1048. Examination; report; treatment A physician, licensed to practice medicine and surgery in the State, shall immediately after examination of an indigent person wishing treatment for tuberculosis or other chronic respiratory disease make a report of the physician’s findings …

§ 1051. Tuberculosis treatment facilities The Commissioner shall approve facilities in the State where indigent persons may be treated for tuberculosis under this subchapter. The Commissioner shall determine to the Commissioner’s satisfaction that all such facilities furnish adeq…

§ 1053. Treatment and care of patients The Secretary of Human Services may provide for treatment and care of tuberculosis and chronic respiratory disease patients at facilities designated by him or her. (Amended 1965, No. 5, § 2; 1966, No. 22 (Sp. Sess.), § 2; 1969, No. 101, § 7,…

§ 1054. Tuberculosis clinic and treatment program (a) The Department shall visit all newly reported cases or suspect cases of tuberculosis with periodic follow-up visits as deemed necessary. (b) The Department shall provide for: (1) prompt examination of all suspects and contacts…

§ 1055. Tuberculosis; compulsory examinations When the Commissioner of Health has reasonable cause to believe that any person has tuberculosis in an active stage or in a communicable form, the Commissioner may request the person to undergo an examination at a clinic or hospital a…

§ 1056. Nature of examination; findings The examination shall be in the manner and form prescribed by the Commissioner of Health. It may include taking of an x-ray of the chest and enough microscopical examinations and cultures to permit completion of diagnosis. The findings of t…

§ 1057. Medical management (a) When the Commissioner of Health determines, as a result of an examination as provided by sections 1055 and 1056 of this title, that any person has tuberculosis in an active stage and in communicable form to an extent that the person may expose other…

§ 1058. Compulsory medical management If any person fails or refuses to comply with an order of the court issued under section 1057 of this title, the Commissioner of Health, in accordance with the order, may request any police officer or sheriff in writing to take the person int…

§ 1059. Leaving compulsory medical management A person who is managed by order of the court shall not leave the place of compulsory medical management without the permission in writing of the court or the Commissioner of Health. That permission may constitute a final discharge or…

§ 1060. Rights of a person in compulsory medical management Any person in compulsory medical management by order of the court who believes his or her physical condition is such as to warrant his or her discharge, if the discharge is refused by the Commissioner of Health, is entit…

§ 1061. Construction with other laws Sections 1055-1060 of this title are in addition to any other statutes relating to communicable diseases generally or to tuberculosis specifically and shall not abrogate or repeal those other statutes unless in direct conflict therewith, in wh…

§ 1091. Venereal diseases; definitions As used in this subchapter, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Authoritative source” means a physician licensed in the State, superintendent of a State institution or private hospital, medical officers of the armed forces of the Sta…

§ 1091a. Venereal diseases; control Venereal diseases are contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to public health. Protection of the public requires the identification and treatment of persons infected by those diseases. (Added 1967, No. 7, § 2.)

§ 1092. Treatments; refusal; penalty A physician or other person, except persons who merely practice the religious tenets of their church without pretending a knowledge of medicine or surgery, provided, however, that sanitary laws, rules, and regulations are complied with, who kn…

§ 1093. Examination and report Whenever the Commissioner shall receive information from an authoritative source to the effect that a person is suspected of being infected with an infectious venereal disease and is likely to infect or to be the source of infection of another perso…

§ 1094. Restraining order Such suspected person may by petition directed to a Justice of the Supreme Court or a Superior judge pray for an order restraining the making of such examination and no examination shall then be made except upon order of such Justice or judge, and such p…

§ 1095. Treatment of partner of patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease (a) As used in this section: (1) “Expedited partner treatment” means the practice of treating the sexual partner or partners of a patient diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease for the se…

§ 1096. Penalty A person who violates a provision of sections 1092-1095 of this title, for which no other penalty is provided, shall be fined not more than $500.00 or imprisoned for not more than six months, or both.

§ 1097. Educational campaign The Commissioner shall conduct an educational campaign of methods for the prevention and treatment and care of persons who have venereal diseases. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961; 2013, No. 96 (Adj. Sess.), § 92; 2023, No…

§ 1098. Examination and treatment by board The Commissioner shall provide at the expense of the State facilities for the free laboratory examination of material from suspected cases of venereal disease, and shall furnish hospitalization and other accredited specific treatment at …

§ 1099. Reports and records confidential All information and reports in connection with persons who have venereal diseases shall be regarded as absolutely confidential and for the sole use of the Department in the performance of the Commissioner’s duties under this chapter, and s…

§ 1100. Rules The Commissioner shall make and enforce such rules for the quarantining and treatment of cases of venereal disease reported to the Commissioner as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the public. (Amended 1959, No. 329 (Adj. Sess.), § 27, eff. March 1, 1961…

§ 1101. Reports by public institutions The superintendent or other officer in charge of public institutions such as hospitals, dispensaries, clinics, homes, psychiatric hospitals, and charitable and correctional institutions shall report promptly to the Commissioner the name, sex…

§ 1102. Taking blood samples A practitioner of medicine and surgery or osteopathy attending a pregnant individual shall take samples of blood of such individual, if possible prior to the third month of gestation, and submit the same to a laboratory approved by the Commissioner fo…

§ 1103. Birth certificate; serological test A person required by section 5071 of this title to file a report of birth shall state on the report whether a blood test for syphilis has been made upon a sample of blood taken from the woman who bore the child named in the report and i…