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22-11A-111
Section 22-11A-111 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) DEPARTMENT. The Alabama Department of Public Health. (2) BOARD.
The State Board of Health. (3) COUNCIL. The Health Care Data Advisory Council. (4) DATA. Patient
information submitted by health care facilities to the Department of Public Health necessary
to carry out the requirements of this article. The information required to be reported by
health care facilities to the department shall be based upon the Federal Centers for Disease
Control and Preventions National Healthcare Safety Network definitions of hospital-acquired
infections and the guidelines for reporting. (5) HEALTH CARE FACILITY. General, critical access,
and specialized hospitals licensed pursuant to Section 22-21-20. (6) HEALTH CARE FACILITY
ACQUIRED INFECTIONS. A localized or systemic condition that: a. Results from adverse reaction
to the presence of an infectious agent or agents or its toxins. b....
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22-11A-121
Section 22-11A-121 Use of data. (a) The department shall utilize the data and information received
for the benefit of the public. (b) Individual patient data submitted to the department by
health care facilities pursuant to this article shall at all times remain confidential and
privileged from discovery. This article does not expand or repeal any protection from discovery,
privilege, or confidentiality for patient specific information that exists by statute, regulation,
or decision by a court of final jurisdiction. (Act 2009-490, p. 900, §12.)...
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22-11A-73
Section 22-11A-73 Reporting requirements; knowledge of infection through application. Nothing
in this article is intended to impose any reporting requirements on life, health, or disability
income insurers who learn that an applicant or insured is infected with HIV, HBV, HCV, or
other disease designated by the State Board of Health solely through the application, underwriting,
or claims processes, which insurer may have no means of knowing or verifying that a particular
applicant or insured is a health care worker within the meaning of this article. (Acts 1993,
1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-846, p. 57, §14; Act 2015-467, §1.)...
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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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38-12-3
Section 38-12-3 Investigation of prospective kinship foster parent. (a) A person may become
a kinship foster parent only upon the completion of an investigation to ascertain if there
is a state or federal record of criminal history for the prospective kinship foster parent
or any other adult residing in the prospective foster parent's home. (b) The Alabama Bureau
of Investigation shall conduct the investigation and shall make the results of the investigation
available to the department in accordance with this section. The department shall maintain
the confidentiality of the investigation results and shall use the results only for purposes
of determining a person's eligibility to become a kinship foster parent. (c) It is unlawful,
except for the purpose of determining a person's eligibility for kinship foster care, for
any person to disclose information obtained under this section. Any person violating this
section commits a Class A misdemeanor. (Act 99-437, p. 864, §3.)...
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38-7-13
Section 38-7-13 Records to be kept by child-care facility; use and disclosure of information.
Every child-care facility shall keep and maintain such records as the department may prescribe
pertaining to the admission, progress, health and discharge of children under the care of
the facility. Records regarding children and facts learned about children and their relatives
shall be kept confidential by the child-care facility and by the department. The department
is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations governing the custody, use and disclosure
of information in such records. Any person who has arrived at the age of 19 and who was placed
by the department or by a licensed child-placing agency shall have the right to receive from
the department or from the licensed child-placing agency information concerning his placement;
except, that the name and address of a natural parent or relative shall be given by the department
or the licensed child-placing agency only with the consent of...
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22-11A-10
Section 22-11A-10 State Board of Health to investigate reported cases of tuberculosis; voluntary
treatment; probate court may order compulsory treatment and quarantine; cost of treatment;
exercise of religious freedom. Whenever the State Board of Health or its authorized representative
shall discover, as a result of its own investigation or as a result of any report required
by this article, that any person may be afflicted with tuberculosis, the State Board of Health,
through its authorized representative, shall investigate or further investigate the circumstances
and, if after investigation, the representative of the State Board of Health is of the opinion
that an active case of tuberculosis is found, he shall encourage the person infected to take
voluntary treatment to meet the minimum requirements prescribed by the State Board of Health.
If such afflicted person refuses voluntary treatment, than the state board of health, through
its authorized representative, may petition the...
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38-13-4
Section 38-13-4 Mandatory criminal history check notice; suitability determinations; checks
on subsequent activity. (a) Every employer, child care facility, adult care facility, the
Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency required to obtain a criminal history
background information check pursuant to this chapter shall obtain, prior to or upon the date
of employment, or issuance of a license or approval or renewal thereof, and maintain in the
agency or personnel file, a request with written consent for the criminal history background
information check and a statement signed by the applicant, volunteer, or employee indicating
whether he or she has ever been convicted of a crime, and if so, fully disclosing all convictions.
The statement shall include a notice and questionnaire the same as or similar to the following:
(1) MANDATORY CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECK NOTICE: Alabama law requires that a criminal history
background information check be conducted on all persons who hold a...
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22-2-9
Section 22-2-9 Council on Dental Health, Council on Animal and Environmental Health, Council
on Prevention of Disease and Medical Care and Council on Health Costs, Administration and
Organization - Creation; duties; composition; appointment and terms of members. (a) There
are hereby created four councils to be known as: (1) The Council on Dental Health; (2) The
Council on Animal and Environmental Health; (3) The Council on the Prevention of Disease and
Medical Care; and (4) The Council on Health Costs, Administration and Organization. (b) It
shall be the duty of the councils to provide public health information, evaluation of data,
research, advice and recommendations to the State Committee of Public Health and perform such
other functions as may be appropriate and as requested by the State Committee of Public Health.
(c) The Council on Dental Health shall be composed of five members licensed to practice dentistry
in this state and appointed by the Alabama Dental Association. The...
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22-8A-11
Section 22-8A-11 Surrogate; requirements; attending physician consulted, intent of patient
followed; persons who may serve as surrogate; priority; validity of decisions; liability;
form; declaratory and injunctive relief; penalties. (a) If no advance directive for health
care has been made, or if no duly appointed health care proxy is reasonably available, or
if a valid advance directive for health care fails to address a particular circumstance, subject
to the provisions of subsection (c) hereof, a surrogate, in consultation with the attending
physician, may, subject to the provisions of Section 22-8A-6, determine whether to provide,
withdraw, or withhold life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration
if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The attending physician determines, to a reasonable
degree of medical certainty, that: a. The individual is no longer able to understand, appreciate,
and direct his or her medical treatment, and b. The individual...
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