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22-4-13
Section 22-4-13 Preparation, review, and revision of State Medical Facilities Plan.
Upon the adoption of federal regulations pursuant to Title XVI of the Public Health Service
Act, the State Board of Health is hereby authorized and required to prepare, review and revise,
at least annually, with such interim revisions as may become necessary, a Medical Facilities
Plan, which shall include all health care facilities defined in Section 22-4-2, shall
divide the State of Alabama into health service areas and, based on population and health
facility utilization statistics and such other criteria as the State Board of Health may direct,
set forth the need for health care facilities in such numbers and locations that all citizens
of the state shall have access to an integrated and interrelated system of health care. The
State Medical Facilities Plan shall consider the medical facilities plans of the health systems
agencies and shall be submitted to the Statewide Health Coordinating Council for...
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27-54A-2
Section 27-54A-2 Treatment under certain policies and contracts. (a) As used in this
section, the following words have the following meanings: (1) APPLIED BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS.
The design, implementation, and evaluation of environmental modifications, using behavioral
stimuli and consequences, to produce socially significant improvement in human behavior, including
the use of direct observation, measurement, and functional analysis of the relationship between
environment and behavior. (2) AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER. Any of the pervasive developmental
disorders or autism spectrum disorders as defined by the most recent edition of the Diagnostic
and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) or the edition that was in effect at the
time of diagnosis. (3) BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TREATMENT. Counseling and treatment programs, including
applied behavior analysis that are both of the following: a. Necessary to develop, maintain,
or restore, to the maximum extent practicable, the functioning of an...
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2-6-103
Section 2-6-103 Public corporation - Application for formation; certificate of incorporation.
(a) To become a public corporation, the Governor, the Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries,
and the Director of Finance shall present to the Secretary of State an application signed
by each which shall set forth all of the following: (1) The name, official designation, and
official residence of each of the applicants together with a certified copy of the document
evidencing each applicant's right to office. (2) The date on which each applicant was inducted
into office and the term of office. (3) The name of the proposed public corporation, which
shall be the Garrett Coliseum Redevelopment Corporation. (4) The location of the principal
office of the proposed public corporation, which shall be Montgomery, Alabama. (5) Any other
information relating to the proposed public corporation which the applicants may choose to
include which is not inconsistent with this article. (b) The application...
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22-11A-68
Section 22-11A-68 Immunity from liability for those involved in investigation. (a) Members
and staff of the State Board of Health, the State Committee of Public Health, the Board of
Medical Examiners, the Medical Licensure Commission, the Board of Nursing, the Board of Dental
Examiners, the Board of Podiatry, physicians, hospitals, other health care facilities, and
other entities and persons required to report or furnish information under this article and
any expert review panels, consultants to any expert review panel, and agents and employees
of the Alabama Department of Public Health shall not be subject to civil or criminal liability
for making reports or furnishing any information required by this article or for actions taken
or actions not taken in the line and scope of official or required duties during their investigations,
hearings, rulings, and decisions. (b) All information collected during the investigation of
an infected health care worker is privileged and shall be...
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22-50-90
Section 22-50-90 Definitions. (a) When used in this article, the following words and
terms shall have the following meanings: (1) CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND INFORMATION. Any
information collected and stored in the criminal record repository of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) reflecting the result of an arrest, detention, or initiation of a criminal
proceeding by criminal justice agencies, including, but not limited to, arrest record information,
fingerprint cards, correctional induction and release information, identifiable descriptions,
and notations of arrests, detention, indictments, or other formal charges. The term shall
not include analytical records or investigative reports that contain criminal intelligence
information or criminal investigation information. (2) DIRECT CARE PROVIDER. A psychiatrist,
medical doctor, psychologist, social worker, community service specialist, therapist, nurse,
mental health worker, foster care provider, police officer, and any other...
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41-22-3
Section 41-22-3 Definitions. The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section, except when
the context otherwise requires: (1) AGENCY. Every board, bureau, commission, department, officer,
or other administrative office or unit of the state, including the Alabama Department of Environmental
Management, other than the Legislature and its agencies, the Alabama State Port Authority,
the courts, the Alabama Public Service Commission, or the State Banking Department, whose
administrative procedures are governed by Sections 5-2A-8 and 5-2A-9. The term does not include
boards of trustees of postsecondary institutions, boards of plans administered by public pension
systems, counties, municipalities, or any agencies of local governmental units, unless they
are expressly made subject to this chapter by general or special law. (2) COMMITTEE. The Joint
Committee on Administrative Rule Review, comprised of the members of...
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16-30B-6
Section 16-30B-6 Temporary task force. (a) A task force is created to serve under the
supervision of the Alabama Department of Education to approve proposed rules of the State
Board of Education regarding the administration of Palliative and End of Life Individual Health
Plans in the school setting, in accordance with Section 16-30B-3. The task force shall
include all of the following representatives: (1) The Department of Education Nurse Administrator.
(2) The Department of Education Nurse Manager. (3) One member appointed by the Special Education
Services Division of the Department of Education. (4) Two registered nurses currently working
in a public school setting, appointed by the Department of Education Nurse Administrator.
(5) One member appointed by the Alabama Association of School Nurses. (6) One member appointed
by the Alabama Board of Nursing. (7) One member appointed by the Children's of Alabama Palliative
Care Team. (8) One member appointed by the University of South...
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16-40-8
Section 16-40-8 Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (a) Effective upon the effective dates
of this section, all students enrolled in health classes in the tenth grade in the
public schools of Alabama shall receive instruction in the techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation,
hereinafter referred to as "CPR." (b) The State Department of Education shall administer
the CPR instruction program and be responsible for the training of personnel, and shall provide
proper CPR training for teacher personnel from September 1, 1983, to be completed by September
1, 1984. (1) CPR training programs for instructors shall continue after this period of time
to provide for refresher courses and updating of new techniques and information. Specific
personnel within local school districts are required to receive training and be certified
prior to providing classroom instruction. (2) In those school systems which have trained and
certified personnel available, classroom instruction shall begin as of September...
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20-3-2
Section 20-3-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY. An institution or facility licensed
as an assisted living facility under regulations of the State Board of Health. (2) CHARITABLE
CLINIC. The term includes an established free medical clinic as defined in subdivision (1)
of Section 6-5-662 and any community health center provided for under the federal Public
Health Service Law. (3) CHARITABLE PATIENT. For purposes of this chapter, the term shall not
include patients who are eligible to receive drugs under the Alabama Medicaid Program or under
any other prescription drug program funded in whole or in part by the state. (4) DRUGS. All
medicinal substances and preparations recognized by the United States Pharmacopoeia and National
Formulary, or any revision thereof, and all substances and preparations intended for external
and internal use in the cure, diagnosis, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of...
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22-6-163
Section 22-6-163 Legislative findings; rules; collaboration; approval of agreements
and contracts; state action immunity; confidentiality of records; additional duties. (a) The
Legislature declares that collaboration among public payers, private health carriers, third
party purchasers, and providers to identify appropriate service delivery systems and reimbursement
methods in order to align incentives in support of integrated and coordinated health care
delivery is in the best interest of the public. Collaboration pursuant to this article is
to provide quality health care at the lowest possible cost to Alabama citizens who are Medicaid
eligible. The Legislature, therefore, declares that this health care delivery system affirmatively
contemplates the foreseeable displacement of competition, such that any anti-competitive effect
may be attributed to the state's policy to displace competition in the delivery of a coordinated
system of health care for the public benefit. In furtherance of...
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