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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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