Examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions and women in labor

If any individual comes to a hospital of the Department that has an emergency department or the campus of such a hospital and the hospital determines that the individual has an emergency medical condition, the hospital must provide either— If an individual at a hospital of the Department has an emergency medical condition that has not been stabilized, the hospital may not transfer the individual unless— For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), an appropriate transfer to a medical facility is a transfer— in which the receiving facility— in which the transferring hospital sends to the receiving facility all medical records (or copies thereof) available at the time of the transfer relating to the emergency medical condition for which the individual has presented, including— In this section: The term “campus” means, with respect to a hospital of the Department— The term “emergency medical condition” means— a medical condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in— in the case of a pregnant woman, a stage of labor that a medical provider determines indicates— The term “to stabilize” means— The term “stabilized” means— The term “transfer” means the movement (including the discharge) of an individual outside the facilities of a hospital of the Department at the direction of any person employed by (or affiliated or associated, directly or indirectly, with) the hospital, but does not include such a movement of an individual who—