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22-5C-3
Section 22-5C-3 Palliative Care Information and Education Program. (a) There is created a statewide
Palliative Care Information and Education Program in the State Health Department. The purpose
of the palliative care information and education program is to maximize the effectiveness
of palliative care initiatives in the state by ensuring that comprehensive and accurate information
and education about palliative care is available to the public, health care providers, and
health care facilities. The department shall publish on its website information and resources,
including links to external resources, about palliative care for the public, health care providers,
and health care facilities. This information shall include, but not be limited to, continuing
educational opportunities for health care providers; information about palliative care delivery
in the home and in other primary, secondary, and tertiary environments; and consumer educational
materials and referral information for...
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22-8A-7
Section 22-8A-7 Competency of declarant; liability of participating physician, facility, etc.
(a) A competent adult may make decisions regarding life-sustaining treatment and artificially
provided nutrition and hydration so long as that individual is able to do so. The desires
of an individual shall at all times supersede the effect of an advance directive for health
care. (b) If the individual is not competent at the time of the decision to provide, withhold,
or withdraw life-sustaining treatment or artificially provided nutrition and hydration, a
living will executed in accordance with Section 22-8A-4(a) or a proxy designation executed
in accordance with Section 22-8A-4(b) is presumed to be valid. For the purpose of this chapter,
a health care provider may presume in the absence of actual notice to the contrary that an
individual who executed an advance directive for health care was competent when it was executed.
The fact of an individual's having executed an advance directive for...
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34-23-77
Section 34-23-77 Collaborative practice agreement. (a) A pharmacist licensed by the Alabama
State Board of Pharmacy and a physician licensed by the State Board of Medical Examiners may
enter into a collaborative practice agreement. (b) A copy of the collaborative practice agreement
and any amendment thereto shall be submitted to each respective board within 10 days after
the agreement is signed by both parties. (c) A collaborative practice agreement and any amendment
thereto shall not become effective until approved by the Alabama State Board of Pharmacy and
the State Board of Medical Examiners. (d) The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy and the State
Board of Medical Examiners shall each adopt rules to implement this section. The initial rules
shall be adopted not later than October 1, 2019. (e) A collaborative practice agreement between
a licensed pharmacist and a licensed physician may not be approved unless both the Alabama
State Board of Pharmacy and State Board of Medical Examiners...
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34-24-501
Section 34-24-501 Definitions. (a) The practice of medicine or osteopathy across state lines
means the practice of medicine or osteopathy as defined in Section 34-24-50(1), as it applies
to: (1) The rendering of a written or otherwise documented medical opinion concerning the
diagnosis or treatment of a patient located within this state by a physician located outside
this state as a result of transmission of individual patient data by electronic or other means
from within this state to such physician or his or her agent; or (2) The rendering of treatment
to a patient located within this state by a physician located outside this state as a result
of transmission of individual patient data by electronic or other means from this state to
such physician or his or her agent. (3) This definition is not intended to include an informal
consultation between a licensed physician located in this state and a physician located outside
this state provided that the consultation is conducted without...
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41-15A-7
Section 41-15A-7 Audit, examination of expenditures. Expenditure of funds by the State Health
Department and school systems shall at all times be subject to audit by the State Auditor
and examination by the Examiners of Public Accounts. Any misexpenditure of funds by any individual
shall, upon conviction in a court of competent jurisdiction, consist of a Class B misdemeanor
and be subject to the penalties therefor. (Act 99-592, p. 1352, §5.)...
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14-3-43
Section 14-3-43 Removal of convicts - Disease or other urgent necessity. The Board of Corrections
may cause the convicts to be removed to such place of security within the state as they may
deem expedient whenever the prevalence of any epidemic, infectious or contagious disease or
any other urgent necessity may render such removal proper, taking all necessary precautions
to insure the safekeeping of the convicts and to prevent escape when removed. (Code 1852,
§298; Code 1867, §3846; Code 1876, §4547; Code 1886, §4663; Code 1896, §4481; Code 1907,
§6533; Code 1923, §3629; Code 1940, T. 45, §40.)...
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2-15-153
Section 2-15-153 Quarantining of lots, towns, cities, etc., where livestock infected with contagious,
infectious or communicable diseases, etc.; issuance and service upon owners, etc., of livestock
and agents, etc., of railroads, trucks, etc., of notice of establishment of quarantine. The
State Veterinarian or an assistant veterinarian or state livestock inspector shall quarantine
a stall, lot, yard, pasture, field, town, city, township, county or any part of the State
of Alabama when he shall determine the fact that livestock in such place or places are infected
with a contagious, infectious or communicable disease or when said livestock are infested
or infected with the carrier or carriers of a contagious, infectious or communicable disease
or when exposed to any such disease. The State Veterinarian or an assistant veterinarian or
livestock inspector shall issue written or printed notice of the establishment of said quarantining
to the owners or keepers of said livestock and to any...
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20-3-2
Section 20-3-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. An institution or facility licensed as an assisted
living facility under regulations of the State Board of Health. (2) CHARITABLE CLINIC. The
term includes an established free medical clinic as defined in subdivision (1) of Section
6-5-662 and any community health center provided for under the federal Public Health Service
Law. (3) CHARITABLE PATIENT. For purposes of this chapter, the term shall not include patients
who are eligible to receive drugs under the Alabama Medicaid Program or under any other prescription
drug program funded in whole or in part by the state. (4) DRUGS. All medicinal substances
and preparations recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National Formulary, or
any revision thereof, and all substances and preparations intended for external and internal
use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of...
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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-39
Section 22-11A-39 Notification of pre-hospital agencies who assisted in delivering person with
infectious disease to hospital. The chief administrator, or his designee, of a hospital, pursuant
to rules promulgated by the Department of Public health, shall notify all pre-hospital agencies
who assisted in handling and delivering a person to a hospital, if the hospital learns said
person has an infectious disease. The State Board of Health shall designate what shall constitute
an infectious disease for the purpose of this section. For the purposes of this section the
term "hospital" shall have the meaning prescribed by Section 22-21-20. For the purposes
of this section the term "pre-hospital agencies" shall include but shall not be
limited to paramedics, firemedics, firemen, law enforcement officers, ambulance drivers, medical
personnel, and similar emergency personnel. (Acts 1990, No. 90-552.)...
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