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22-5A-5
Section 22-5A-5 Procedures for receiving complaints; informing recipients of ombudsman
program. The State Ombudsman shall establish written procedures for receiving complaints involving
long-term residential health care facilities and their employees. The Department of Senior
Services shall provide to health care, domiciliary and residential facilities written information
on the ombudsman program to be distributed to recipients at the time of admission, or rendering
of care and/or treatment at a facility. (Acts 1985, No. 85-657, p. 1029, §5.)...
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22-5A-3
Section 22-5A-3 Duties of State Ombudsman and department. The State Ombudsman and the
department are hereby authorized to investigate complaints concerning health care, domiciliary
and residential care facilities. The State Ombudsman shall promote the well-being and quality
of life of long-term residential health care recipients and encourage the development of community
ombudsman activities at the local level. After appropriate training and approval by the department,
community ombudsmen shall be certified by the department and shall have the powers and responsibilities
set forth in Sections 22-5A-4 and 22-5A-6, subject to the procedures established by the State
Ombudsman pursuant to Section 22-5A-5. The State Ombudsman shall submit to the department
an annual written report documenting the kinds of complaints and problems reported so that
the department can make recommendations concerning needed policy, regulatory, and legislative
changes. (Acts 1985, No. 85-657, p. 1029, §3.)...
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22-5A-4
Section 22-5A-4 Selection of community ombudsmen; training; certification; duties; area
plan to describe program; notification of department as to prospective ombudsmen; advisory
committee on program. (a) Each area agency on aging funded by the department shall select
at least one community ombudsman in each planning and service area established according to
regulations issued pursuant to the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended. The community
ombudsman shall be an employee or contractual employee of the area agency on aging and shall
certify to having no association with any health care facility or provider for reward or profit.
(b) The duties of each community ombudsman shall be as follows: (1) To receive, investigate,
respond to, and attempt informally to resolve complaints made by or on behalf of recipients;
(2) To report immediately instances of fraud, abuse, neglect, or exploitation to the department
of pensions and security for investigation and follow-up pursuant to Chapter...
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38-2-6
Section 38-2-6 Duties, powers, and responsibilities of state department. The aim of
the state department shall be the promotion of a unified development of welfare activities
and agencies of the state and of the local governments so that each agency and each governmental
institution shall function as an integral part of a general system. In order to carry out
effectively these aims, it shall be the duty and responsibility of the state department to:
(1) Administer or supervise all forms of public assistance including general home relief,
outdoor and indoor care for persons in need of assistance, also including those duties that
have to do primarily with the determination of need and authorization of relief. (2) Exercise
all the powers, duties, and responsibilities previously vested by law in the State Child Welfare
Department. (3) Provide services to county or municipal governments including the organization
and supervision of counties for the effective carrying out of welfare...
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25-5-290
Section 25-5-290 Ombudsman program, creation; purpose; members; notification of service;
benefit review conferences. (a) The Department of Industrial Relations shall establish an
Ombudsman Program to assist injured or disabled employees, persons claiming death benefits,
employers, and other persons in protecting their rights and obtaining information available
under the Workers' Compensation Law. (b) Providing that the employer and the employee agree
to participate in the benefit review conference, the ombudsmen shall meet with or otherwise
provide information to injured or disabled employees, investigate complaints, and communicate
with employers, insurance carriers, and health care providers on behalf of injured or disabled
employees. (c) Ombudsmen shall be Merit System employees and demonstrate familiarity with
the Workers' Compensation Law. An ombudsman shall not be an advocate for any person who shall
assist a claimant, employer, or other person in any proceeding beyond the...
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38-15-4
Section 38-15-4 Registration of certain youth residential institutions or organizations;
staff training plans; rights of children; licensing and inspection of food preparation areas;
access by law enforcement agencies. (a) Commencing on January 1, 2018, the department shall
register any religious, faith-based, or church nonprofit, other nonprofit, or for profit affiliated
youth residential facility, youth social rehabilitation facility, community treatment facility
for youths, youth transitional care facility, long term youth residential facility, private
alternative boarding school, private alternative outdoor program, and any organization entrusted
with the residential care of children in any organizational form or combination defined by
this section, whenever children are housed at the facility or location of the program
for a period of more than 24 hours. At a minimum, registered youth residential institution
or organization under this section shall do all of the following: (1) Be...
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14-13-2
Section 14-13-2 Adoption and text of Interstate Corrections Compact. The Interstate
Corrections Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by the State of Alabama with
any and all states legally joining therein, in accordance with its terms, in the form substantially
as follows: INTERSTATE CORRECTIONS COMPACT Article I (Purpose and Policy) The party states,
desiring by common action to fully utilize and improve their institutional facilities and
provide adequate programs for the confinement, treatment, and rehabilitation of various types
of offenders, declare that it is the policy of each of the party states to provide such facilities
and programs on a basis of cooperation with one another, thereby serving the best interests
of such offenders and of society and effecting economies in capital expenditures and operational
costs. The purpose of this compact is to provide for the mutual development and execution
of such programs of cooperation for the confinement, treatment and...
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41-9-1061
Section 41-9-1061 Purposes, duties. (a) The commission shall study the conditions, needs,
issues, and problems of the criminal justice system in Alabama as it affects girls and women
by conducting walk through inspections of each of the women's correctional facilities and
female youth facilities and shall have unimpeded access to all documents of public record
produced, used, and maintained by entities of the criminal justice system to assess the needs
of the beneficiary population and to assess the impact of the commission's recommendations.
(b) The commission shall conduct beneficiary panels and focus groups to assess needs of the
beneficiary population to ensure the responsiveness and accountability of the criminal justice
system. (c) In conducting such study, the commission shall study best practices regarding
women victims and offenders in Alabama and other states and shall elicit views from experts
in the field of criminal justice, drug treatment, and domestic violence. (d) The...
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22-18-50
Section 22-18-50 Enactment and text of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure
Interstate Compact. The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact
is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein
in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public
through verification of competency and ensure accountability for patient care related activities
all states license emergency medical services (EMS) personnel, such as emergency medical technicians
(EMTs), advanced EMTs and paramedics. This Compact is intended to facilitate the day to day
movement of EMS personnel across state boundaries in the performance of their EMS duties as
assigned by an appropriate authority and authorize state EMS offices to afford immediate legal
recognition to EMS personnel licensed in a member state. This Compact recognizes that states
have a vested interest in protecting the public's health and safety...
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22-50-11
Section 22-50-11 Department - Additional and cumulative powers. The Department of Mental
Health is given hereby the following additional and cumulative powers through its commissioner:
(1) It is authorized and directed to set up state plans for the purpose of controlling and
treating any and all forms of mental and emotional illness and any and all forms of mental
retardation and shall divide the state into regions, districts, areas or zones, which need
not be geographic areas, but shall be areas for the purpose of establishing priorities and
programs and for organizational and administrative purposes in accordance with these state
plans. (2) It is designated and authorized to supervise, coordinate, and establish standards
for all operations and activities of the state related to mental health and the providing
of mental health services; and it is authorized to receive and administer any funds available
from any source for the purpose of acquiring building sites for, constructing,...
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