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22-2-10
Section 22-2-10 Council on Dental Health, Council on Animal and Environmental Health, Council
on Prevention of Disease and Medical Care and Council on Health Costs, Administration and
Organization - Chairmen; vacancies; meetings; quorum; compensation. Each such council shall
select from among its members, by majority vote, a chairman; and the chairman of each such
council, by virtue of his selection as chairman, shall be a member of the State Committee
of Public Health with full voting privileges, rights and responsibilities of membership. As
each term expires on each council, the designated association or person responsible for the
original appointment shall fill the vacancy for a five-year term. Appointees who serve less
than five-year terms shall be eligible for reappointment for only one five-year term. A council
member who ceases to be a member of the appointing authority or who no longer is a resident
of the State of Alabama shall automatically cease to be a member of the council...
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22-6-23
Section 22-6-23 "Facility" defined. Where referred to in this article, facility shall
mean intermediate care facility and skilled nursing facility licensed by the State Board of
Health. More specific definitions shall be established by the department pursuant to the Alabama
Administrative Procedures Act in order to comply with OBRA. (Acts 1989, No. 89-641, p. 1268,
§4.)...
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12-15-208
Section 12-15-208 Facilities to be used for detention or shelter care of children generally;
when child may be detained in jail or other facility for detention of adults; notification
of juvenile court, when child received at facility for detention of adult offenders or persons
charged with crimes; development of statewide system; Department of Youth Services to subsidize
detention in regional facilities, may contract for detention; transfer of child to detention
facility, when case transferred from juvenile court for criminal prosecution. (a) Persons
who shall not be detained or confined in secure custody include all of the following: (1)
STATUS OFFENDERS. Effective October 1, 2009, status offenders, as defined in this article,
shall not be detained or confined in secure custody, except that a status offender who is
charged with or who commits a violation of a valid court order may be detained in secure custody
in a juvenile detention facility for up to 72 hours in any six-month...
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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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22-11A-69
Section 22-11A-69 Confidentiality standards; uses of information gained during investigation.
(a) The records, proceedings, deliberations, and documents related to the investigation and
review of any infected health care worker are confidential and shall be used by committees,
licensing boards of licensed health care workers, panels, and individuals only in the exercise
of their official duties and shall not be public records nor be admissible in court for any
purpose nor subject to discovery in any civil action except appeals governed by Sections 22-11A-64
and 22-11A-65 and appeals from adverse professional license determinations made pursuant to
Sections 22-11A-66 and 22-11A-72(a). Information gained during the investigation of an infected
health care worker and the decision about restriction of practice of an infected health care
worker shall be made available to the appropriate licensing board and to the employer of an
infected health care worker and may be used by the licensing...
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22-21-33
Section 22-21-33 Penalties for operation of or referring persons to unlicensed hospital. (a)(1)
Any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or other
business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined in
this article or any rules promulgated hereunder, without having been granted a license by
the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor upon conviction, except
that any individual, association, corporation, partnership, limited liability company, or
other business entity who operates or causes to be operated a hospital of any kind as defined
in this article or any rules promulgated hereunder without having been granted a license by
the State Board of Health shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor upon conviction of a second
or any subsequent offense. (2) The State Board of Health, upon determination that a facility
or business is operating as a hospital, within the meaning of this article or...
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22-4-42
Section 22-4-42 Limitations on use of information. The information collected pursuant to this
article shall be used to assist the SHPDA, the Certificate of Need Review Board, and the SHCC
to provide health planning and development services for the citizens of Alabama. The information
generated by these reports may not be used by SHPDA or any other agency or unit of state government
for any other purpose. (Act 2015-471, §13.)...
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22-6-26
Section 22-6-26 Health department functions and responsibilities. This article shall in no
way supersede, replace or affect the licensing and certification responsibilities or other
regulatory functions of the Health Department. All health care facilities licensing authority
shall remain the responsibility of the Department of Public Health upon and after May 9, 1989.
(Acts 1989, No. 89-641, p. 1268, §7.)...
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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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6-5-542
Section 6-5-542 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following terms shall have
the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section: (1) HEALTH CARE PROVIDER. A medical
practitioner, dental practitioner, medical institution, physician, dentist, hospital, or other
health care provider as those terms are defined in Section 6-5-481. (2) STANDARD OF CARE.
The standard of care is that level of such reasonable care, skill, and diligence as other
similarly situated health care providers in the same general line of practice, ordinarily
have and exercise in like cases. A breach of the standard of care is the failure by a health
care provider to comply with the standard of care, which failure proximately causes personal
injury or wrongful death. This definition applies to all actions for injuries or damages or
wrongful death whether in contract or tort and whether based on intentional or unintentional
conduct. (3) FUTURE DAMAGES. Damages for future medical treatment, care,...
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