Expands the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.

The bill expands the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities. It allows practitioners to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications and nurses to distribute them to patients being discharged from hospital emergency departments. This is permitted when community or outpatient hospital pharmacy services are not available, including for opioid overdose reversal and treatment for opioid use disorder.

Expands the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities.

The bill expands the situations in which medications can be dispensed or delivered from hospitals and health care entities. It allows practitioners to prescribe prepackaged emergency medications and nurses to distribute them to patients being discharged from hospital emergency departments. This is permitted when community or outpatient hospital pharmacy services are not available, including for opioid overdose reversal and treatment for opioid use disorder.