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<section article="ghg" article_name="Health - General" number="5-1106" title_number="5" title_name="Death" subtitle_number="11">
  <level label="a">
    <text>A local team may request records under this section under the authority of the State Team.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>On request of the chair of a local team and as necessary to carry out the purpose and duties of the local team, a health care provider or a local government agency shall immediately provide to the local team any records of the health care provider or local government agency necessary to complete the review of a specific fatality, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Hospital records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Outpatient clinic, health care provider, and laboratory records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Police investigative data;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Medical examiner investigative data;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Cause of death information in vital records;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Social services records; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>Other records from local offices, agencies, and departments.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The local team may request that a person with direct knowledge of circumstances surrounding a fatality provide the local team with the information necessary to complete review of the particular fatality, including information from:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>A health care provider or staff involved in the care of the decedent; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The person who first responded to a report concerning the decedent.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
