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22-4-5
Section 22-4-5 Adoption, revision, etc., of rules, regulations, standards, etc., by State Board
of Health; appeals therefrom; State Board of Health not to discriminate among branches of
healing arts in administration of funds. (a) The State Board of Health, with the advice and
consultation of the Statewide Health Coordinating Council, is hereby authorized and empowered
to adopt, revise, abolish, promulgate and publish rules, regulations, standards and procedures
for: (1) The preparation of the preliminary State Health Plan and the State Medical Facilities
Plan; (2) The administration of the State Health Plan and of the State Medical Facilities
Plan after approval by the Statewide Health Coordinating Council; (3) The construction and
operation of health care facilities established under the State Medical Facilities Plan; and
(4) Such other matters as may be necessary to carry out the intent and purpose of this article.
(b) The State Board of Health is also authorized and empowered to...
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22-6-233
Section 22-6-233 Legislative findings; certification of collaborators; powers of Medicaid Agency;
state action immunity. (a) The Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers,
private health carriers, third party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service
delivery systems and reimbursement methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated
and coordinated health care delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration
pursuant to this article is to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to
Alabama citizens who are Medicaid eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this
health care delivery system affirmatively contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition,
such that any anti-competitive effect may be attributed to the state's policy to displace
competition in the delivery of a coordinated system of health care for the public benefit.
In furtherance of this goal, the Legislature declares its intent...
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34-9-6.1
Section 34-9-6.1 Mobile dental facilities or portable dental operations. (a) For purposes of
this section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) DENTAL HOME. The dental
home is the ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient, inclusive of all aspects
of oral health care, delivered in a comprehensive, continuously accessible, coordinated, and
family-centered way. (2) MOBILE DENTAL FACILITY. Any self-contained facility in which dentistry
or dental hygiene is practiced which may be moved, towed, or transported from one location
to another. (3) OPERATOR. A person licensed to practice dentistry in this state or an entity
which is approved as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code which
employs dentists licensed in the state to operate a mobile dental facility or portable dental
operation. (4) PORTABLE DENTAL OPERATION. The use of portable dental delivery equipment which
is set up on site to provide dental services outside of a mobile...
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41-10-351
Section 41-10-351 Definitions. The following terms hereafter used in this article shall have
the following respective meanings: (1) AUTHORITY. The public corporation organized pursuant
to the provisions of this article. (2) BONDS. The bonds issued under the provisions of this
article. (3) COMMISSIONER. The Commissioner of Mental Health. (4) DEPARTMENT. The Department
of Mental Health provided for in Chapter 50 of Subtitle 2 of Title 22. (5) DIRECTORS. The
board of directors of the authority. (6) MENTAL HEALTH FACILITIES. Any one or more of the
following: hospitals and other facilities of any kind for treatment and care of the mentally
ill and individuals with an intellectual disability; regional or community-based mental health
centers; regional or community-based facilities for treatment and care of the mentally ill
or individuals with an intellectual disability; regional or community-based centers for the
treatment of alcoholism or drug addiction; and improvements to existing state...
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22-21-171
Section 22-21-171 Purpose and construction of article. It is the intention of the Legislature
by the passage of this article to authorize in each of the several counties of the state the
organization of a public corporation or corporations for the purpose of acquiring, owning
and operating public hospitals and other health-care and related facilities in the county
in which such corporation shall be organized. It is the legislative intent to confer on corporations
organized under this article all the powers requisite for the fulfillment of the purposes
of their organization, including the power to do whatever financing may be necessary to accomplish
such purposes. This article shall be liberally construed to give effect to its purpose. Corporations
organized under this article shall be public, nonprofit corporations, and no part of the net
earnings thereof shall inure to the benefit of any individual or private corporation. (Acts
1975, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 183, p. 442, ยง1.)...
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22-21-40
Section 22-21-40 Approval of design and construction of project. No licensee of the State Board
of Health or Department of Public Health, applicant for licensure from the State Board of
Health or Department of Public Health, or any person or entity seeking certification for reimbursement
under the Social Security Act or other law of the United States for which the State Board
of Health or Department of Public Health provides surveys or inspections shall commence or
in any fashion engage in any new construction, additions to, or alterations of any hospital
or other health care facility in the State of Alabama as defined by Section 22-21-20 and rules
of the State Board of Health without first submitting to the State Board of Health plans,
drawings, and specifications for the new construction, addition, or alteration, and receiving
review comments from the State Board of Health. Construction shall not begin until the licensee,
applicant, or submitter satisfies the State Board of Health...
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40-14A-29
Section 40-14A-29 Submission of initial tax and report. (a) By domestic entities. Each corporation,
limited liability entity, and disregarded entity organized under the laws of Alabama shall,
within two and one-half months after its organization, file with the department an initial
report setting out its name, address, and the name and address of its agent for service of
process in Alabama and a return including payment of the tax levied by this article for the
year of its organization. The report and return required by this section shall be made on
forms prescribed by the department. (b) By foreign entities. Every corporation, limited liability
entity, and disregarded entity organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than Alabama
shall, within two and one-half months after qualifying to do business in Alabama, file with
the department an initial report setting forth its name and address, its principal place of
business where organized, its principal place of business in Alabama,...
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22-11A-118
Section 22-11A-118 Health Care Data Advisory Council. (a) There is established the Health Care
Data Advisory Council to assist in developing regulations and standards necessary to implement
the provisions of this article, to review and serve as consultants to the board on matters
related to any reports or publications prior to a report or publication release and to serve
as consultants to the board on matters relating to the protection, collection, and dissemination
of health care facility acquired infection data. (b) The council shall consist of 18 members
and be constituted in the following manner: (1) Six hospital members to be appointed by the
Alabama Hospital Association, two of which shall be infection control professionals. (2) Three
members to be appointed by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. (3) Two members
to be appointed by the Business Council of Alabama, at least one of whom represents a small
business, all of whom are purchasers of health care, and none of...
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22-21-318
Section 22-21-318 Powers of authority. (a) In addition to all other powers granted elsewhere
in this article, and subject to the express provisions of its certificate of incorporation,
an authority shall have the following powers, together with all powers incidental thereto
or necessary to the discharge thereof in corporate form: (1) To have succession by its corporate
name for the duration of time, which may be in perpetuity, specified in its certificate of
incorporation or until dissolved as provided in Section 22-21-339; (2) To sue and be sued
in its own name in civil suits and actions, and to defend suits and actions against it, including
suits and actions ex delicto and ex contractu, subject, however, to the provisions of Chapter
93 of Title 11, which chapter is hereby made applicable to the authority; (3) To adopt and
make use of a corporate seal and to alter the same at pleasure; (4) To adopt, alter, amend
and repeal bylaws, regulations and rules, not inconsistent with the...
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22-52-17
Section 22-52-17 Public facilities other than Department of Mental Health not required to perform
mental evaluations; exceptions. Notwithstanding any other language in this article, the following
limitations shall apply. No public facility other than the Department of Mental Health may
be required (as distinguished from authorized) by the probate court to perform any mental
evaluation of a person sought to be committed for use in any final commitment hearing except:
(1) In an emergency case wherein no other source or agency which is funded or mandated by
federal law, state law or both to provide such services is objectively capable of performing
such evaluation within the time limit imposed by law; or (2) In an emergency case wherein
no other source or agency operates to perform such evaluation in such emergency case, a public
hospital may be required to accept a person sought to be committed for the provision of hospital
care, if such person is admitted to the public hospital or other...
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