A person needing emergency services and care shall not be transferred from a hospital to another hospital for any nonmedical reason (such as the person’s inability to pay for any emergency service or care) unless each of the following conditions are met:

including, if necessary, consultation, prior to transfer.

that a reasonable and prudent physician and surgeon in the same or similar locality exercising ordinary care would use to effect the transfer.

that contains relevant transfer information. The form of the “Transfer Summary” shall, at a minimum, contain the person’s name, address, sex, race, age, insurance status, and medical condition; the name and address of the transferring physician and surgeon or emergency department personnel authorizing the transfer; the time and date the person was first presented at the transferring hospital; the name of the physician and surgeon at the receiving hospital consenting to the transfer and the time and date of the consent; the time and date of the transfer; the reason for the transfer; and the declaration of the signor that the signor is assured, within reasonable medical probability, that the transfer creates no medical hazard to the patient. Neither the transferring physician and surgeon nor transferring hospital shall be required to duplicate, in the “Transfer Summary,”

information contained in medical records transferred with the person.

to be notified and, prior to the transfer, the hospital shall make a reasonable attempt to contact that person and alert him or her about the proposed transfer, in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 56.1007 of the Civil Code. If the patient is not able to respond, the hospital shall make a reasonable effort to ascertain the identity of the preferred contact person or the next of kin and alert him or her about the transfer,

in accordance with subdivision (b) of Section 56.1007 of the Civil Code. The hospital shall document in the patient’s medical record any attempts to contact a preferred contact person or next of kin.

not prohibit the transfer or discharge of a patient when the patient or the patient’s representative requests a transfer or discharge and gives informed consent to the transfer or discharge against medical advice.