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22-21-131
Section 22-21-131 Purpose and construction of article. It is the intention of the Legislature
by the passage of this article to empower each incorporated city and town in the state to
authorize the incorporation of one or more public corporations as political subdivisions of
the state for the purpose of providing public hospital facilities, to invest each corporation
organized under this article with all powers that may be necessary to enable it to accomplish
such purposes, including the power to lease or operate its properties and to issue interest-bearing
revenue bonds, and to grant to the municipality power to rent such public hospital facilities
on a year-to-year basis and to pledge tax revenues to secure the rent payable therefor. This
article shall be liberally construed in conformity with the said intent. (Acts 1961, No. 109,
p. 134, §1; Acts 1978, No. 409, p. 394, §2.)...
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45-42-244
Section 45-42-244 Use of proceeds for indigent health care. The Limestone County Commission
is hereby authorized and empowered to use, and pay from, the unencumbered proceeds of any
and all special county tax or taxes levied pursuant to Amendment 125, Constitution of Alabama
of 1901, to defray the expense of indigent health care in Limestone County, to pay obligations
of Limestone County pursuant to the Alabama Health Care Responsibility Act, Sections 22-21-290
to 22-21-297, inclusive, or otherwise to fund indigent health care for Limestone County, including
acquiring, constructing, equipping, operating, and maintaining public hospitals, public clinics,
public health centers, and related public health facilities of any kind, or for any one or
more of the purposes included within the meaning of the term public hospital purposes, for
the purpose of providing hospital care and treatment for indigent residents of the county,
or for the purpose of matching any state or federal funds made...
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16-17A-2
Section 16-17A-2 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER. The teaching, research, and clinical
facilities provided, established, or operated by a constitutionally created public university
in the state or a university that operates a school of medicine. (2) AUTHORITY. A public corporation
organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. (3) BOARD. The board of directors of
an authority. (4) DIRECTOR. A member of the board of an authority. (5) GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY.
The state, a county, a municipality, or any department, agency, board, or commission of the
state, a county, or a municipality. (6) HEALTH CARE FACILITY. All property or rights in property,
real or personal, tangible or intangible, useful to an authority in its operations, including
without limitation, the following: a. Facilities necessary or desirable to the operation of
an academic medical center, one or more health sciences schools,...
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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, §1.)...
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22-21-29
Section 22-21-29 Inspections. (a) Every hospital licensed under this article shall be open
to inspection to the extent authorized in this section by employees and agents of the State
Board of Health, under rules as shall be promulgated by the board with the advice and consent
of the advisory board. Employees and agents of the board shall also inspect unlicensed and
suspected unlicensed facilities. Nothing in this section shall authorize the board to inspect
quarters therein occupied by members of any religious group or nurses engaged in work in any
hospital or places of refuge for members of religious orders for whom care is provided, but
any inspection shall be limited and confined to the parts and portions of the hospital as
are used for the care and treatment of the patients and the general facilities for their care
and treatment. No hospital shall, by reason of this section, be relieved from any other types
of inspections authorized by law. (b) All inspections undertaken by the...
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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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31-5A-11
Section 31-5A-11 Certification process. Any home in addition to the one located in Alexander
City, Alabama, or any proposed new service or proposed change of service or any requirement
then deemed applicable shall be subject to the certificate of need process, the Department
of Public Health Division of Licensure and Certification and any and all review and approval
processes, criteria, statutory, and administrative rules and regulations then applicable to
any proposed privately-owned and/or operated nursing home facility or health care provider
seeking to operate in Alabama. All state veterans' nursing homes, domiciliaries, hospitals,
or any other health related activities shall be subject to all the rules and regulations governing
and controlling the operation of a privately-owned facility or provider of health services
in the State of Alabama. (Acts 1988, 1st Sp. Sess., No. 88-776, p. 184, §10.)...
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22-11A-68
Section 22-11A-68 Immunity from liability for those involved in investigation. (a) Members
and staff of the State Board of Health, the State Committee of Public Health, the Board of
Medical Examiners, the Medical Licensure Commission, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Dental
Examiners, the Board of Podiatry, physicians, hospitals, other health care facilities, and
other entities and persons required to report or furnish information under this article and
any expert review panels, consultants to any expert review panel, and agents and employees
of the Alabama Department of Public Health shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability
for making reports or furnishing any information required by this article or for actions taken
or actions not taken in the line and scope of official or required duties during their investigations,
hearings, rulings, and decisions. (b) All information collected during the investigation of
an infected health care worker is privileged and shall be...
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34-23-74
Section 34-23-74 Hospitals and related institutions; automated dispensing systems. (a) Except
as otherwise provided in subsection (b), every pharmacy located in a hospital, skilled nursing
home, or other related institution in this state shall be under the supervision of a licensed
pharmacist. In general hospitals, skilled nursing homes, and extended care facilities not
operating a pharmacy, the drug or medicine room shall be under the direct supervision and
direction of a consulting pharmacist or a member of the medical staff who shall be a licensed
practitioner of medicine. In nursing homes which are not classified by the State Board of
Health as skilled nursing homes, maternity homes, homes for the aged, domiciliary institutions,
and all related institutions except those operated by and in conjunction with a licensed hospital,
medicines or drugs bearing the wording on the label "caution, federal law prohibits dispensing
without prescription" or similar wording that causes the...
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40-26B-70
Section 40-26B-70 Definitions. For purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ACCESS PAYMENT. A payment by the Medicaid program to an eligible
hospital for inpatient or outpatient hospital care, or both, provided to a Medicaid recipient.
(2) ALL PATIENT REFINED DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUP (APR-DRG). A statistical system of classifying
any non-Medicare inpatient stay into groups for the purposes of payment. (3) ALTERNATE CARE
PROVIDER. A contractor, other than a regional care organization, that agrees to provide a
comprehensive package of Medicaid benefits to Medicaid beneficiaries in a defined region of
the state pursuant to a risk contract. (4) CERTIFIED PUBLIC EXPENDITURE (CPE). A certification
in writing of the cost of providing medical care to Medicaid beneficiaries by publicly owned
hospitals and hospitals owned by a state agency or a state university plus the amount of uncompensated
care provided by publicly owned hospitals and hospitals...
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