AN ACT relating to blood donations.

Amend KRS 214.456 to require a health facility that facilitates autologous or directed blood donations to comply with a health care provider's order prescribing an autologous or directed blood donation; allow health facilities to provide an autologous or directed blood donation ordered by a health care provider for a medical procedure.

Introduced: January 9, 2025

Last action: February 4, 2025

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This bill would require health facilities to follow a doctor's order when a patient has arranged to donate their own blood or receive blood from a specific chosen donor ahead of a medical procedure. It also clarifies that health facilities are allowed to carry out these types of directed blood donations when a provider has ordered them. Who it may affect: patients planning scheduled medical procedures, particularly those who wish to use their own stored blood or blood from a designated donor.

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