§132D-21  Health care facilities; report offireworks and articles pyrotechnic incidents.  Health care facilities inthis State shall report all incidents of serious injuries and fatalities causedby legal and illegal fireworks or articles pyrotechnic to the department ofhealth and the police department of the county in which the person was attendedor treated.  All reports shall be in writing or in the manner specified by thedepartment of health.

As used in this section, "health carefacilities" includes any outpatient clinic, emergency room, or physician'soffice, private or public, whether organized for profit or not, used, operated,or designed to provide medical diagnosis, treatment, nursing, rehabilitative,or preventive care to any person or persons.  The term includes but is notlimited to health care facilities that are commonly referred to as hospitals,extended care and rehabilitation centers, nursing homes, skilled nursingfacilities, intermediate care facilities, hospices for the terminally ill thatrequire licensure or certification by the department of health, kidney diseasetreatment centers, including freestanding hemodialysis units, outpatientclinics, organized ambulatory health care facilities, emergency care facilitiesand centers, home health agencies, health maintenance organizations, and othersproviding similarly organized services regardless of nomenclature. [L 2000, c117, §1; am L 2006, c 183, §19]