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40-18-131
Section 40-18-131 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words have the
following meanings, respectively, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) RURAL
PHYSICIAN. A physician licensed to practice medicine in Alabama who practices and resides
in a small or rural community and has admission privileges to a small or rural hospital. (2)
SMALL OR RURAL COMMUNITY. A community in Alabama that has less than 25,000 residents according
to the latest decennial census and has a hospital with an emergency room. (3) SMALL OR RURAL
HOSPITAL. An acute care hospital that meets one of the following requirements: a. Contains
less than 105 beds and is located more than 20 miles, under normal travel conditions, from
another acute care hospital located in Alabama. b. Receives Medicare rural reimbursement from
the federal government. (Acts 1993, No. 93-313, p. 470, §2.)...
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6-5-551
Section 6-5-551 Complaint to detail circumstances rendering provider liable; discovery. In
any action for injury, damages, or wrongful death, whether in contract or in tort, against
a health care provider for breach of the standard of care, whether resulting from acts or
omissions in providing health care, or the hiring, training, supervision, retention, or termination
of care givers, the Alabama Medical Liability Act shall govern the parameters of discovery
and all aspects of the action. The plaintiff shall include in the complaint filed in the action
a detailed specification and factual description of each act and omission alleged by plaintiff
to render the health care provider liable to plaintiff and shall include when feasible and
ascertainable the date, time, and place of the act or acts. The plaintiff shall amend his
complaint timely upon ascertainment of new or different acts or omissions upon which his claim
is based; provided, however, that any such amendment must be made at...
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22-21-218
Section 22-21-218 Admittance in other county when local facilities deemed inadequate. In the
event that no participating hospital in a participating county has adequate personnel, equipment
or other medical facilities necessary for the proper care and treatment of a particular indigent
residing in the county, the admissions committee in such county may approve the admittance
of such indigent to a participating hospital in any other county, and in such cases, the county
commission of the county in which such indigent resides shall pay to the hospital to which
the indigent is admitted such charges for indigent hospitalization as such hospital would
have been entitled to receive had the indigent been a resident of the county in which the
hospital is located. (Acts 1957, No. 394, p. 539, §14.)...
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26-9-13
Section 26-9-13 Commitment of incompetent veteran to veterans' hospital. Whenever it appears
that an incompetent veteran of any war, military occupation, or expedition is eligible for
treatment in a United States veterans' hospital and commitment to such hospital is necessary
for the proper care and treatment of such veteran, the courts of this state are hereby authorized
to communicate with the administration with reference to available facilities and eligibility
and, upon receipt of a certificate from the administration stating that there are facilities
available in a United States veterans' hospital and that the veteran is entitled to hospitalization
therein, the court may then direct such veteran's commitment to such United States veterans'
hospital. Thereafter such veteran upon admission shall be subject to the rules and regulations
of such hospital and the officials of such hospital shall be vested with the same powers now
exercised by superintendents of state hospitals for...
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22-18-44
Section 22-18-44 Applicability of chapter and rules of board to volunteer fire departments.
Neither the provisions of this chapter nor rules of the board adopted thereunder shall apply
to volunteer fire departments which are not regularly engaged in the provision of emergency
medical care and which offer only Basic Life Support response and do not transport. Volunteer
fire departments which regularly provide emergency medical care shall be subject to this chapter,
except when entitled to an exemption pursuant to Section 22-18-2. Provided, however, that
this chapter and regulations adopted thereunder shall govern only the EMS functions of volunteer
fire departments and shall not apply to their firefighting functions or other functions. A
volunteer fire department shall have in place a system for the emergency treatment or transport
of motor vehicle crash victims, or other trauma victims or emergency patients to be deemed
to be regularly engaged in the provision of emergency medical...
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22-21-210
Section 22-21-210 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, unless otherwise indicated,
the following terms shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:
(1) HOSPITAL. Any state, county, municipal or other public or private hospital licensed under
the laws of this state, except a hospital, whether public or private, which is operated primarily
for the care and treatment of tuberculosis, mental disorders or any other such chronic disease
or illness. (2) INDIGENT. Any person who has resided continuously in this state for not less
than one year and who is acutely ill or injured and can be helped markedly by treatment in
a hospital, but who is unable to pay the cost of such hospitalization from his own resources
or from the resources of those upon whom he is legally dependent. (3) PHYSICIAN. Any person
who has been duly licensed to practice medicine in the State of Alabama. (4) PARTICIPATING
HOSPITAL. Any hospital, as defined by this section, which has been...
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22-21-29
Section 22-21-29 Inspections. (a) Every hospital licensed under this article shall be open
to inspection to the extent authorized in this section by employees and agents of the State
Board of Health, under rules as shall be promulgated by the board with the advice and consent
of the advisory board. Employees and agents of the board shall also inspect unlicensed and
suspected unlicensed facilities. Nothing in this section shall authorize the board to inspect
quarters therein occupied by members of any religious group or nurses engaged in work in any
hospital or places of refuge for members of religious orders for whom care is provided, but
any inspection shall be limited and confined to the parts and portions of the hospital as
are used for the care and treatment of the patients and the general facilities for their care
and treatment. No hospital shall, by reason of this section, be relieved from any other types
of inspections authorized by law. (b) All inspections undertaken by the...
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22-8A-14
Section 22-8A-14 Filing and recording of living will; fee; inspection; duty of declarant to
provide copy to health care providers. (a) A person may file and have recorded a living will
in the office of the judge of probate in the county where the person resides. For the purpose
of this section, the term "living will" means an advanced directive for health care
as provided for in this chapter, or a similar document. (b) The fee for recording a living
will shall be five dollars ($5), which shall be deposited in the county general fund. In addition,
any other recording fees required by general or local law shall also be collected and shall
be distributed as provided by that law. (c)(1) A living will recorded pursuant to this section
shall not be open for general public inspection, but shall be available for inspection and
copying at the request of emergency medical personnel, hospital personnel, treating physicians,
members of the immediate family, a person with a power of attorney or...
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3-7A-1
Section 3-7A-1 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases shall
have the following meanings respectively ascribed to them unless the context clearly indicates
otherwise: (1) CANINE CORPS DOGS. Those members of the canine family maintained by governmental
agencies for exclusive use in official duties assigned to those agencies. Seeing eye dogs
shall be included within the meaning of this definition. (2) CAT. All members of the domesticated
feline (Felis catus) family. (3) DOG. All members of the domesticated canine (Canis familiaris)
family. (4) FERRET. All members of the ferret (Mustela putorius furo) family. (5) HAS BEEN
EXPOSED. Suspected or confirmed contact of saliva with a break or abrasion of the skin or
with any mucous membrane, as determined by the health officer or medical or law enforcement
personnel. (6) HEALTH OFFICER. The State Health Officer or any county health officer as defined
in Section 22-3-2, or his or her designee. (7) IMMUNIZATION...
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3-7A-9
Section 3-7A-9 Quarantine of dog, cat, or ferret which bites human being; destruction and examination
of animal; violations; instructions for quarantine; report of results; exemptions. (a) Whenever
the rabies officer or the health officer receives information that a human being has been
bitten or exposed by a dog, cat, or ferret required by this chapter to be immunized against
rabies, the officer or his or her authorized agent shall cause the dog, cat, or ferret to
be placed in quarantine under the direct supervision of a duly licensed veterinarian for rabies
observation as prescribed in Section 3-7A-1. It shall be unlawful for any person having knowledge
that a human being has been bitten or exposed by a dog, cat, or ferret to fail to notify one
or more of the aforementioned officers. Vaccinated dogs, cats, and ferrets may be authorized
to be quarantined in the home of the owner of the animal by the appropriate health officer.
(b) When a dog, cat, or ferret has no owner as determined...
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