[sirI]

Yes, and the document specifies that that notification is to be done by an employee of a partner notification program. That would be a division of the public health authority, not the hospital staff.

Exactly.

[NurseCutie]

This whole situation is sad. I don't know if the proper authorities have been notified and if this poor woman has been made aware finally...

[NanSeeH]

If the patient is unresponsive, who is giving "informed" consent?

[NurseCutie]

I believe he just has friends here. He didn't want to be treated for anything in the first place, but ended up in the hospital somehow. He got emurgently intubated a few wks ago....