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38-13-3
Section 38-13-3 Criminal history background information check required for certain individuals;
exemptions. (a) On November 1, 2000, every employer, child care facility, adult care facility,
the Department of Human Resources, and child placing agency shall request the Alabama State
Law Enforcement Agency to conduct a criminal history background information check for the
following: (1) An employment applicant, employee or volunteer of an employer, child care facility,
adult care facility, or child placing agency. (2) A current foster parent for a child or adult
or adult household member of a foster family or applicant and an adult household member of
a foster family seeking approval to operate as a foster parent or foster family home for a
child placing agency or the Department of Human Resources. Unless otherwise provided in this
chapter, no criminal history background information check shall be conducted on a current
foster parent or household member of a foster family if a Federal...
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44-1-27
Section 44-1-27 Standards for programs and youth detention facilities; licensing and inspection
of youth detention and foster care facilities. (a) The Department of Youth Services shall
establish and promulgate reasonable minimum standards for the construction and operation of
detention facilities, programs for the prevention and correction of youth delinquency, consultation
from local officials, and subsidies to local delinquency projects. The standards shall include,
but not be limited to, reasonable minimum standards for detention facilities, foster care
facilities, group homes, and correctional institutions. (b) No county, city, public or private
agency, group, corporation, partnership, or individual shall establish, maintain, or operate
any detention facility or any foster care facility for youths found delinquent or in need
of supervision by a juvenile court without a license from the department. A license shall
be required on an annual basis or as determined by the department....
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22-54-1
Section 22-54-1 Establishment authorized; facility to be under jurisdiction of Department of
Mental Health; designation. (a) The Alabama Department of Mental Health is hereby authorized
to establish an institution for persons displaying evidence of mental illness or psychosocial
disorders and requiring diagnostic services and treatment in a security setting. (b) The institution
shall be under the jurisdiction of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and shall be known
as the Alabama Security Medical Facility. (Acts 1975, No. 1220, p. 2545, §1.)...
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22-56-5
Section 22-56-5 Department to establish official standards for certification. In order to ensure
that consumers of mental health services through state facilities, community mental health
centers, and other providers under contract to the department receive individual treatment
and that rights delineated in Section 22-56-4 and elsewhere in state and federal law are consistently
observed within mental health programs operated by the providers, the department shall establish
within 180 days of January 1, 1996, official standards for certification to be observed by
all state facilities, community mental health centers, and other providers under contract
to the department. These standards shall be developed with the active participation of mental
health providers, consumers and family members of consumers. The department shall establish
teams to monitor the compliance with these standards by state facilities, community mental
health centers, and providers under contract to the department,...
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22-52-10.2
Section 22-52-10.2 Findings necessary for outpatient treatment. (a) A respondent may be committed
to outpatient treatment if the probate court finds, based upon clear and convincing evidence,
all of the following: (1) The respondent is mentally ill. (2) As a result of the mental illness,
the respondent will, if not treated, continue to suffer mental distress and will continue
to experience deterioration of the ability to function independently. (3) The respondent is
unable to make a rational and informed decision as to whether or not treatment for mental
illness would be desirable. (b) Upon a recommendation made by the designated mental health
facility currently providing outpatient treatment that the respondent's outpatient commitment
order should be renewed, a probate court may enter an order to renew the commitment order
upon the expiration of time allotted for treatment by the original outpatient treatment order
if the probate court finds, based upon clear and convincing evidence,...
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22-52-35
Section 22-52-35 Appointment of special probate judges for consideration, hearing and entry
of orders pertaining to commitment or continued custody of certain persons committed or transferred
to facilities of Department of Mental Health; qualifications, powers, etc., of special probate
judges; conduct of hearings by special probate judges generally. (a) Upon application of the
commissioner or his designee, the Governor may appoint one or more special judges of probate
for the purpose of considering, hearing and entering appropriate orders with regard to the
commitment or continued custody of such persons who have been committed by any court of this
state to any facility pursuant to the provisions of Sections 15-16-24 and 15-16-40, accused
of a crime but not yet tried, or transferred to such facility on order of the Governor, pursuant
to the provisions of Article 4 of this chapter. (b) A special judge of probate appointed under
the provisions of this article shall be vested with all...
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12-23-16
Section 12-23-16 Indigent Offender Alcohol and Drug Treatment Fund - Criteria for eligibility
of programs to receive payment from fund. The Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
shall establish criteria to determine which treatment programs shall be eligible to receive
payment for treatment services for indigent offenders from this fund, and shall establish
rates of reimbursement for treatment of indigent offenders. At a minimum, such programs must
be nonprofit and certified by the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation
or joint commission on accreditation of health-care organizations. (Acts 1990, No. 90-390,
p. 537, §16.)...
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12-23-9
Section 12-23-9 Department of Mental Health to develop policies and procedures; certification.
The Department of Mental Health shall develop policies and procedures which shall be followed
in the treatment of offenders. These programs shall be certified by the Alabama Department
of Mental Health or the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health-care Organizations (JCAHO).
(Acts 1990, No. 90-390, p. 537, §9.)...
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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-115
Section 22-11A-115 Submission of first report. Within one year of the certification by the
department, health care facilities shall make the first report due under this article. The
board shall specify by rule the types of information on patients with health care facility
acquired infections which shall be submitted and the method of submission. The first report
due under this article submitted by health care facilities shall only be required to cover
those persons provided services during the immediately preceding three months' time period.
(Act 2009-490, p. 900, §6.)...
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