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22-11A-60
by a rule adopted pursuant to the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. (7) INVASIVE PROCEDURES.
(a) Those medical or surgical procedures characterized by the digital palpation of a needle
tip in a body cavity or by the simultaneous presence of the health care worker's fingers and
a needle or other sharp instrument or object in a poorly visualized or highly confined anatomic
site. (b) Invasive dental procedures shall include those that provide the opportunity for
an intraoral percutaneous injury to the dental health care worker and could result
in the blood of the health care worker coming in contact with the blood or mucous membrane
of the patient as adopted by the Board of Dental Examiners in rules developed pursuant to
Section 22-11A-70. (c) These procedures shall not include physical examinations; blood pressure
checks; eye examinations; phlebotomy; administering intramuscular, intradermal, or subcutaneous
injections; needle biopsies; needle aspirations; lumbar punctures;...
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22-21-265
Section 22-21-265 Certificates of need - Required for new institutional health service. (a)
On or after July 30, 1979, no person to which this article applies shall acquire, construct,
or operate a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or furnish or offer,
or purport to furnish a new institutional health service, as defined in this article, or make
an arrangement or commitment for financing the offering of a new institutional health service,
unless the person shall first obtain from the SHPDA a certificate of need therefor. Notwithstanding
any provisions of this article to the contrary, those facilities and distinct units operated
by the Department of Mental Health, and those facilities and distinct units operating under
contract or subcontract with the Department of Mental Health where the contract constitutes
the primary source of income to the facility, shall not be required to obtain a certificate
of need under this article. (b) Notwithstanding all other...
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22-21-260
Section 22-21-260 Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and terms, and
the plurals thereof, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, unless otherwise
required by their respective context: (1) ACQUISITION. Obtaining the legal equitable title
to a freehold or leasehold estate or otherwise obtaining the substantial benefit of such titles
or estates, whether by purchase, lease, loan or suffrage, gift, devise, legacy, settlement
of a trust or means whatever, and shall include any act of acquisition. The term "acquisition"
shall not mean or include any conveyance, or creation of any lien or security interest by
mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement, or similar financing instrument, nor shall it
mean or include any transfer of title or rights as a result of the foreclosure, or conveyance
or transfer in lieu of the foreclosure, of any such mortgage, deed of trust, security agreement,
or similar financing instrument, nor shall it mean or include any...
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6-5-332
from liability any person responsible for an overall mine rescue operation, including an operator
of an affected facility and any person assuming responsibility therefor under federal or state
statutes or regulations. (e) A person or entity, who in good faith and without compensation
renders emergency care or treatment to a person suffering or appearing to suffer from cardiac
arrest, which may include the use of an automated external defibrillator, shall be immune
from civil liability for any personal injury as a result of care or treatment
or as a result of any act or failure to act in providing or arranging further medical treatment
where the person acts as an ordinary prudent person would have acted under the same or similar
circumstances, except damages that may result from the gross negligence of the person rendering
emergency care. This immunity shall extend to the licensed physician or medical authority
who is involved in automated external defibrillator site placement, the...
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36-1A-5
Section 36-1A-5 Participation limited to voluntary, charitable, health and human care federations
and agencies with a substantial local presence. (a) Participation in the Alabama State Employee
Combined Charitable Campaign shall be limited to voluntary, charitable, health and human care
federations and agencies with a substantial local presence that provide or support direct
health and welfare services to individuals or their families and meet the criteria set forth
in this section. "Substantial local presence" is defined as a facility, staffed
by professionals or volunteers, available to provide its services and open at least 15 hours
a week. Such services must be available to state employees in the local campaign community,
unless they are rendered to needy persons overseas. Such services must directly benefit human
beings, whether children, youth, adults, the aged, the ill and infirm, or the mentally or
physically handicapped. Such services must consist of care, research, or...
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22-21-7
Section 22-21-7 Itemized statement of services rendered to be furnished patient upon request;
provisions of statement; itemization of services and expenses; action by Attorney General;
payment of claims by insurance companies. (a) For the purposes of this section, the term "hospital"
shall mean any hospital in which human patients are given medical care. It shall include all
emergency rooms or outpatient facilities connected thereto. (b) Within 10 days following discharge
or release from confinement in a hospital or nursing home, or within 10 days after the earliest
date at which the expense from the confinement or service may be determined, which in the
case of long-term confinement may be the monthly charge, the hospital or nursing home providing
the service shall submit to the patient, or to his survivor or legal guardian as may be appropriate,
upon written request, an itemized statement detailing in language comprehensible to an ordinary
layman the specific nature of charges or...
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27-20A-1
27-20A-1 Definitions. The following words and phrases used in this chapter, and others evidently
intended as the equivalent thereof, shall, in the absence of clear implication otherwise,
be given the following respective interpretations herein: (1) ALCOHOLISM. A chronic disorder
or illness in which the individual is unable, for psychological or physical reasons, or both,
to refrain from the frequent consumption of alcohol in quantities sufficient to produce intoxication
and, ultimately, injury to health and effective functioning. (2) DETOXIFICATION. Supervised
physical withdrawal from alcohol. (3) INPATIENT TREATMENT FOR ALCOHOLISM. Care provided in
a licensed hospital and is normally limited to detoxification where severe medical or psychiatric
complications are present or may be anticipated. (4) SHORT TERM RESIDENTIAL ALCOHOLISM TREATMENT
FACILITY. A state certified facility which provides structured programs of intensive treatment
services for people addicted to alcohol....
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34-29-61
VETERINARIAN. A person who is validly and currently licensed to practice veterinary medicine
in Alabama. (13) LICENSED VETERINARY TECHNICIAN. A person who is validly and currently licensed
to practice as a veterinary technician in Alabama. (14) PERSON. Any individual, firm, partnership,
association, joint venture, cooperative, or corporation or any other group or combination
acting in concert; and whether or not acting as a principal, trustee, fiduciary, receiver,
or as any kind of legal or personal representative, or as the successor in interest,
assigning agent, factor, servant, employee, director, officer, or any other representative
of such person. (15) PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE: a. To diagnose, treat, correct, change,
relieve, or prevent animal disease, deformity, defect, injury, or other physical or
mental condition; including the prescription or administration of any drug, medicine, biologic,
apparatus, application, anesthesia, or other therapeutic or diagnostic...
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38-12A-2
to have been perpetrated by a member of the foster parent's household, the process for disposition
of these allegations, and any review process for reports of indicated child abuse and neglect
upon receipt of the allegations. A written notification of any report in which a finding is
not indicated on the county level shall be provided to a foster parent within five days of
the findings. (21) The right to copies of all information relative to their family and services
contained in the personal foster home record. (22) The right to mediation procedures
that may be developed and adopted by the department and the Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parent
Association Board. The foster parent may request mediation in accordance with any mediation
policy adopted by the department and the Alabama Foster and Adoptive Parent Association Board
without threat of reprisal. (23) The right to appeal the closing of a foster family home by
the department in accordance with any appeal procedure adopted...
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38-15-4
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 shall be afforded the following rights and any other rights adopted by the department
through rule, which shall be publicly posted and accessible to youth: a. To be afforded dignity
in his or her personal relationships with staff, youth, and other persons. b. To live
in a safe, healthy, and comfortable environment where he or she is treated with respect. c.
To be free from physical, sexual, emotional, or other abuse or corporal punishment. d. To
be granted a reasonable level of personal privacy in accommodations, personal
care and assistance, and visits. e. To confidential care of his or her records and personal
information, and to approve release of those records prior to the release of...
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