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22-11A-53
Section 22-11A-53 Notification of positive test result; counseling; referral to appropriate
health care services; explanation of individual responsibility. An individual tested shall
be notified of a positive test result by the physician ordering the test, his designee, a
physician designated by the applicant or by the Department of Public Health. Such notification
shall include: (1) Face-to-face post-test counseling on the meaning of the test results, the
possible need for additional testing, and the need to eliminate behavior which may spread
the disease to others; (2) Information as to the availability of appropriate health care services,
including mental health care, and appropriate social and support services; and (3) Explanation
of the benefits of locating, testing and counseling any individual to whom the infected individual
may have exposed the HIV virus and a full description of the services of public health with
respect to locating and counseling all such individuals. (Acts...
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26-1A-404
Section 26-1A-404 Health care powers of attorney executed on or after January 1, 2012. (a)
This section applies to a power of attorney for health care decisions executed on or after
January 1, 2012. (b) A durable power of attorney is a power of attorney by which a principal
designates another his or her attorney in fact or agent in writing and the writing contains
the words "This power of attorney shall not be affected by disability, incompetency,
or incapacity of the principal" or "This power of attorney shall become effective
upon the disability, incompetency, or incapacity of the principal" or similar words showing
the intent of the principal that the authority conferred shall be exercisable notwithstanding
the principal's subsequent disability, incompetency, or incapacity. (c)(1) A principal may
designate under a durable power of attorney an individual who shall be empowered to make health
care decisions on behalf of the principal, in the manner set forth in the Natural Death Act,...
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6-5-332.6
Section 6-5-332.6 Persons who provide transportation to health care facility or health care
provider under certain circumstances. (a) A person who, in good faith, and not for compensation,
provides an individual transportation to a health care facility or health care provider is
not subject to civil liability for negligence claimed by the individual receiving the transportation,
if the provider could not have reasonably anticipated the particular harm caused by the negligent
act while acting in the line and scope of a volunteer in providing transportation, or the
act or omission was not the result of the provider's willful or wanton misconduct. The immunity
provided in this subsection includes transportation from an individual's residence. (b) Acceptance
by the transportation provider of a gratuitous contribution or donation made by the individual
receiving transportation services does not constitute a waiver of immunity under this section.
(Act 2019-450, §1.)...
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22-11B-1
Section 22-11B-1 Health care providers upon request required to give immunization status of
patients. (a) Notwithstanding any of the confidentiality provisions in Chapter 11A of this
title, or any other provisions of law, every public and private health care provider shall,
upon request of the persons or entities herein identified, provide information concerning
the immunization status of any patient in accordance with rules promulgated by the State Board
of Health to the following persons and entities: (1) Other public and private health care
providers. (2) Health care insurers of all descriptions. (3) The Alabama Medicaid Agency.
(4) Individuals and organizations with a need to verify the immunization status of persons
in their care, custody, or enrollment, including but not limited to, the chief executive officer,
or a designee of the officer, of a public or private day care center, school, or postsecondary
educational institution. (b) The authorization granted pursuant to this...
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22-8A-4
Section 22-8A-4 Advance Directive for Health Care; living will and health care proxy. (a) Any
competent adult may execute a living will directing the providing, withholding, or withdrawal
of life-sustaining treatment and artificially provided nutrition and hydration. Artificially
provided nutrition and hydration shall not be withdrawn or withheld pursuant to the living
will unless specifically authorized therein. (b) A competent adult may execute at any time
a living will that includes a written health care proxy designation appointing another competent
adult to make decisions regarding the providing, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining
treatment and artificially provided nutrition and hydration. Artificially provided nutrition
and hydration shall not be withdrawn or withheld pursuant to the proxy designation unless
specifically authorized therein. A proxy designation made pursuant to this section shall be
accepted in writing by the individual being appointed. The acceptance...
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16-30A-5
Section 16-30A-5 Appropriate care for students under Individual Health Plan; availability of
nurse or medication assistant. (a) The local board of education shall ensure that each student
in the school or system with a diabetic condition receives appropriate care as specified in
his or her Individual Health Plan. (b) The school nurse or a trained unlicensed medication
assistant, to the extent required by the student's Individual Health Plan, shall be on site
and available to provide care to each student with diabetes during regular school hours and
school-sponsored before school and after school care programs, during field trips, extended
off-site excursions, extracurricular activities in which the student is a direct participant,
and on buses when the bus driver is not a trained unlicensed medication assistant. (Act 2014-437,
p. 1618, §5.)...
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22-11A-118
Section 22-11A-118 Health Care Data Advisory Council. (a) There is established the Health Care
Data Advisory Council to assist in developing regulations and standards necessary to implement
the provisions of this article, to review and serve as consultants to the board on matters
related to any reports or publications prior to a report or publication release and to serve
as consultants to the board on matters relating to the protection, collection, and dissemination
of health care facility acquired infection data. (b) The council shall consist of 18 members
and be constituted in the following manner: (1) Six hospital members to be appointed by the
Alabama Hospital Association, two of which shall be infection control professionals. (2) Three
members to be appointed by the Medical Association of the State of Alabama. (3) Two members
to be appointed by the Business Council of Alabama, at least one of whom represents a small
business, all of whom are purchasers of health care, and none of...
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22-11A-73
Section 22-11A-73 Reporting requirements; knowledge of infection through application. Nothing
in this article is intended to impose any reporting requirements on life, health, or disability
income insurers who learn that an applicant or insured is infected with HIV, HBV, HCV, or
other disease designated by the State Board of Health solely through the application, underwriting,
or claims processes, which insurer may have no means of knowing or verifying that a particular
applicant or insured is a health care worker within the meaning of this article. (Acts 1993,
1st Ex. Sess., No. 93-846, p. 57, §14; Act 2015-467, §1.)...
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22-19-161
Section 22-19-161 Definitions. In this article: (1) "Adult" means an individual who
is at least 18 years of age. (2) "Agent" means an individual: (A) authorized to
make health care decisions on the principal's behalf by a power of attorney for health care;
or (B) expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other
record signed by the principal. (3) "Anatomical gift" means a donation of all or
part of a human body to take effect after the donor's death for the purpose of transplantation,
therapy, research, or education. (4) "Coroner" means an elected or appointed official
who determines, with the assistance of other forensic scientists and investigators, the cause,
manner, and circumstances surrounding death. (5) "Decedent" means a deceased individual
whose body or part is or may be the source of an anatomical gift. The term includes a stillborn
infant and, subject to restrictions imposed by law other than this article, a fetus. (6) "Disinterested...
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22-8A-8
Section 22-8A-8 Refusal of health care provider to comply; penalties. (a) A health care provider
who refuses to comply with a living will or the directions of a duly designated proxy or a
duly appointed surrogate or who refuses to honor a portable physician DNAR order executed
in compliance with the directives of this chapter and using the form designated by the State
Board of Health pursuant to this chapter shall promptly so advise the declarant and any individual
designated to act for the declarant, shall not be liable for such refusal, but shall permit
the patient to be transferred to another health care provider. Such health care provider shall
reasonably cooperate to assist the declarant, or any individual designated to act for the
declarant, in the timely transfer of the declarant to another health care provider that will
follow the directions of the portable physician DNAR order, living will, health care proxy,
or surrogate. During the time for the transfer, all life-sustaining...
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