SB 5460-S.E - DIGEST
(DIGEST AS ENACTED)

Authorizes a hospital to allow a practitioner to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications and allow a practitioner or a registered nurse to distribute prepackaged emergency medications to patients being discharged from a hospital emergency department during times when community or outpatient hospital pharmacy services are not available within fifteen miles by road.

Permits a licensed hospital pharmacy, without a wholesaler license, to: (1) Engage in intracompany sales; and

(2) Sell, purchase, or trade a drug or offer to sell, purchase, or trade a drug for emergency medical reasons.

Authorizes hospitals with pharmacy licenses to include under its license any individual practitioner's office or multipractitioner clinic owned and operated by the hospital, and identified by the hospital on the pharmacy application or renewal.