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LA Rev Stat § 40:2166.9 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2166.9. Immunization information; influenza

RS 2166.9 - Immunization information; influenza  A. No later than September first of each year and in accordance with the latest recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, every licensed adult residential care provider shall provide residents educational information on influenza. This educational information shall include, at a minimum, the risks associated with influenza, the availability, effectiveness, and known contraindications of the influenza immunization, the causes and symptoms of influenza, and the means by which influenza is spread.  B. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require any adult residential care provider to provide or pay for any immunization against influenza.  Acts 2016, No. 28, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2166.10 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2166.10. Immunization information; shingles; pneumonia

RS 2166.10 - Immunization information; shingles; pneumonia  A. No later than September first of each year and in accordance with the latest recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Louisiana Department of Health shall provide licensed adult residential care providers with educational information on zoster, also known as shingles. The educational information shall include, at a minimum, the risks associated with shingles and how to protect oneself against the varicella-zoster virus. The licensed adult residential care providers shall disseminate this information to their residents.  B. No later than September first of each year and in accordance with the latest recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Louisiana Department of Health shall provide licensed adult residential care providers with educational information on pneumonia. The educational information shall include, at a minimum, the risks associated with pneumonia and the availability of the pneumococcal immunization. The licensed adult residential care providers shall disseminate this information to their residents.  C. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to require any adult residential care provider to provide or pay for any immunization against the varicella-zoster virus or pneumonia.  D. The Louisiana Department of Health shall provide the educational information required by Subsections A and B of this Section through the posting of a link to its website where the information can be downloaded by the licensed adult residential care providers.  Acts 2016, No. 155, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2171 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2171. Definitions

RS 2171 - Definitions  As used in this Part:  (1) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.  (2) "Trauma case" means any injured person who has been evaluated by prehospital personnel according to policies and procedures established by the Louisiana Department of Health and who has been found to require transportation to a trauma center.  (3) "Trauma center" means a health care facility which is capable of treating one or more types of potentially seriously injured persons and which has been certified as a trauma center by the Louisiana Department of Health.  Acts 1987, No. 358, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2172 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2172. Certificates; applications; fees

RS 2172 - Certificates; applications; fees A. All health care facilities offering trauma care services may be certified on a voluntary basis. B. Application for certification shall be made by a health care facility to the department upon forms furnished by the department. Upon determination that the facility is in compliance with the minimum requirements for certification as established by the department, the department shall issue a certificate for such period as may be provided for in the published regulations of the department. C. There shall be a certification fee of two hundred dollars for any certificate issued in accordance with the provisions of this Part, renewable every three years. Acts 1987, No. 358, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.1. Short title

RS 2175.1 - Short title This Part may be cited as the "Outpatient Abortion Facility Licensing Law". Acts 2001, No. 391, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.2 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.2. Purpose

RS 2175.2 - Purpose  The purpose of this Part is to authorize the Louisiana Department of Health to promulgate and publish rules and regulations to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of women in outpatient abortion facilities and for the safe operation of such facilities. The rules shall be reasonably related to the purpose expressed in this Section and shall not impose a legally significant burden on a woman's freedom to decide whether to terminate her pregnancy.  Acts 2001, No. 391, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.3 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.3. Definitions

RS 2175.3 - Definitions  For purposes of this Part, the following definitions apply:  (1) "Abortion" shall have the meaning set forth in R.S. 40:1061.9.  (2) "Abortion facility professional" or "outpatient abortion facility professional" means an individual who is a physician, surgeon, resident, intern, licensed nurse, nursing aide, emergency medical technician, or a paramedic who diagnoses, examines, or treats a female patient at an outpatient abortion facility.  (3) "Abortion facility staff member" or "outpatient abortion facility staff member" means an individual who is not an abortion facility professional but who is employed by or contracts with an outpatient abortion facility to provide services and who has any contact with patients at the facility.  (4) "First trimester" means the time period up to fourteen weeks after the first day of the last menstrual period.  (5) "Licensee" means the person, partnership, corporation, association, organization, or professional entity on whom rests the ultimate responsibility and authority for the conduct of the outpatient abortion facility.  (6) "Licensing agency" means the Louisiana Department of Health.  (7) "Mandatory reporter to law enforcement" means any abortion facility staff member or any abortion facility professional.  (8) "Outpatient abortion facility" means any outpatient facility, other than a hospital as defined in R.S. 40:2102 or an ambulatory surgical center as defined in R.S. 40:2133, in which any second trimester or five or more first trimester abortions per calendar year are performed.  (9) "Second trimester" means the time period from fourteen to twenty-three weeks after the first day of the last menstrual period.  (10) "Secretary" means the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health.  Acts 2001, No. 391, §1; Acts 2014, No. 620, §1, eff. Sept. 1, 2014; Acts 2019, No. 280, §3; Acts 2019, No. 376, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.4 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.4. License required

RS 2175.4 - License required  A. An outpatient abortion facility may not be established or operated in this state without an appropriate license issued under this Part.  NOTE: Subsection B eff. until conditions per Acts 2018, No. 498.  B. A license issued to an outpatient abortion facility is valid for only one location.  NOTE: Subsection B eff. upon conditions per Acts 2018, No. 498.  B. A license issued to an outpatient abortion facility is valid for only one location that shall be physically and financially separate from any facility where publicly funded medical assistance program services are provided, in accordance with R.S. 49:200.51.  C. A license issued to an outpatient abortion facility shall be valid for one year from the date of issuance, unless revoked prior to that date.  D. A license issued to an outpatient abortion facility is not transferable or assignable.  E. A license issued to an outpatient abortion facility shall be posted in a conspicuous place on the licensed premises.  Acts 2001, No. 391, §1; Acts 2018, No. 498, §2, See Act.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.5 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.5. Rules; regulations; licensing standards

RS 2175.5 - Rules; regulations; licensing standards  The licensing agency shall promulgate and publish rules, regulations, and licensing standards to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of women in outpatient abortion facilities and for the safe operation of such facilities. The rules, regulations, and licensing standards shall become effective upon approval of the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act. The initial rules, regulations, and licensing standards shall not become effective until approved by the House Committee on Health and Welfare and the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare. No outpatient abortion facility shall be required to obtain a license under this Part until the initial rules, regulations, and licensing standards are adopted and promulgated in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act.  Acts 2001, No. 391, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.7 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.7. Mandatory reports to law enforcement; human trafficking awareness and prevention training

RS 2175.7 - Mandatory reports to law enforcement; human trafficking awareness and prevention training  A.(1) Notwithstanding any claim of privileged communication, any mandatory reporter to law enforcement who has cause to believe that a minor or adult female who presents at an outpatient abortion facility is a victim of human trafficking, trafficking of children for sexual purposes, rape, incest, or coerced abortion shall report such crime immediately, or no later than the end of the business day, to the sheriff's department in the parish or local police department where the outpatient abortion facility is located. If the victim does not reside in the parish where the outpatient abortion facility is located, the mandatory reporter to law enforcement shall also report the crime to the law enforcement agency in the parish or county in which the victim resides, if reasonably ascertainable.  (2) The Louisiana Department of Health shall promulgate a form which may be used by a mandatory reporter to law enforcement to report a crime, pursuant to Paragraph (1) of this Subsection, to the parish or local law enforcement agency.  B.(1) Beginning August 1, 2019, every mandatory reporter to law enforcement shall certify to the Louisiana Department of Health that they have participated in a training on human trafficking awareness and prevention on an annual basis. The department shall maintain the name of each mandatory reporter to law enforcement as confidential, and such information shall not be subject to disclosure pursuant to the Public Records Law.  (2) The Louisiana Department of Health shall promulgate rules to provide for compliance of this Subsection utilizing the online educational videos on human trafficking awareness and prevention provided by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, office on trafficking in persons or such training tools as may be adopted by the department.  Acts 2019, No. 280, §3.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.11 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.11. Legislative findings

RS 2175.11 - Legislative findings The legislature finds that many consumers have limited access to needed health care and other consumers have limited health care choices. Consumers of health care also experience high out-of-pocket costs for health care, and the state as a whole experiences high aggregate health care costs. The legislature also finds that the provision of high quality services for care, regardless of setting, is of overriding importance. Currently, there is insufficient data and information on the efficacy of alternative models of health care delivery. New and innovative solutions are needed to address these needs. Acts 2003, No. 571, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.12 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.12. Purpose; definitions

RS 2175.12 - Purpose; definitions  A. This Part is intended to foster innovative solutions to limited access to needed health care, limited health care choices, and high aggregate health care costs, through the study of alternative health care delivery systems and alternative licensing. Furthermore, these demonstration projects shall be developed in an orderly manner and regulated by the Louisiana Department of Health.  B. For purposes of this Part, the following terms have the following meanings:  (1) "Alternate health care model" means a facility or program authorized under this Part.  (2) "Autonomous" means a separate and distinct operational entity which functions under its own administration and bylaws, either within or independently of a parent organization.  (3) "Children's respite care center" means an autonomous, centrally administered, pediatric medical respite program providing a continuum of home, outpatient, and homelike inpatient care for Louisiana children living with life-limiting illnesses and their families. It employs an interdisciplinary team to assist in providing palliative care and supportive care, combined with curative treatment, to meet the special needs arising out of the physical, emotional, spiritual, social, and economic stresses which are experienced during life-limiting illnesses as well as during dying and bereavement if a cure is not attained.  (4) "Core services" means medical respite program services, nursing services, physician services, social work services, counseling services, and support services, including trained volunteers, and bereavement and pastoral care.  (5) "Demonstration program" means a program to license and study alternate health care models authorized under this Part.  (6) "Department" means the Louisiana Department of Health.  (7) "Interdisciplinary team" means representatives from all the core services as evidenced by documentation, planning, and team meetings.  (8) "Life-limiting illness" means a medical prognosis of limited expected survival because of ailment, illness, disease, or misfortune, including but not limited to injury, accident, cancer, heart disease, and congenital and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.  (9) "Medical respite program" means the temporary care and supervision of a child living with a life-limiting illness so that the primary caregiver can be relieved of such duties. Such services may be performed in the home of the child or in a facility owned or leased by the children's respite care center.  (10) "Palliative care" means the reduction or abatement of pain or other troubling symptoms by appropriate coordination of the interdisciplinary team required to achieve needed relief of distress.  (11) "Pediatric" means from birth through age twenty.  Acts 2003, No. 571, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.13 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.13. Licensure required; transferability of license

RS 2175.13 - Licensure required; transferability of license A. It shall be unlawful to operate or maintain a health care facility or program that meets the definition and scope of an alternate health care model unless it is a participant in a demonstration program under this Part and licensed by the department as an alternate health care model. B. Application for licensure shall be made by the alternate health care model to the department on forms furnished by the department. C. An alternate health care model license shall be issued for a period of one year and shall be annually renewed if the facility or program is in substantial compliance with the department's rules adopted under this Part. A licensed alternate health care model that continues to be in substantial compliance with the department's rules after the conclusion of the demonstration program shall be eligible for annual renewals unless and until a different licensure program for that type of health care model is established by legislation. D. The licensee shall display the license in a prominent place at the facility. The license shall not be subject to sale, assignment, or other transfer, voluntary or involuntary, and shall not be valid for any other alternate health care model other than the alternate health care model for which originally issued. Acts 2003, No. 571, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.14 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.14. Department responsibilities

RS 2175.14 - Department responsibilities  A. The department shall investigate new health care delivery models as described in this Part and authorize as alternate health care models those models for which demonstration programs should be initiated using the following criteria:  (1) The feasibility of operating the model in Louisiana.  (2) The potential of the model to meet unmet health care needs.  (3) The potential of the model to reduce health care costs to consumers, third-party payors, and aggregate costs to the public.  (4) The potential of the model to improve the standards of health care delivery.  (5) The potential of the model to provide increased choices or access for patients.  B. The secretary of the department shall promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this Part relative to the licensure of alternate health care models in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act.  C.(1) Upon determination that the alternate health care model is in compliance with the minimum requirements for licensure as established by the department and with other applicable state and local laws and regulations, the department shall issue a license for such period as provided in this Part.  (2) There shall be an annual license fee to be set by the department not to exceed six hundred dollars and an annual fee not to exceed five dollars per unit for any license issued in accordance with the provisions of this Part.  (3) No hospital or other facility currently licensed, certified, or allowed by existing law to operate shall be required to be licensed as an alternate health care model.  (4) Nothing herein shall be construed to allow an alternate health care model to provide long-term care services provided in a nursing facility without first complying with the provisions of R.S. 40:2116.  D. Once the alternate health care model is issued a license, the licensee shall be free to pursue reimbursement from whatever means possible for services to be provided.  E. The department shall report to the House and Senate committees on health and welfare within two years from the date of any licensure of an alternate health care model. The report shall include but not be limited to whether the alternate health care model improved access to health care, the quality of health care provided by the alternate health care model, and the cost and cost-effectiveness to the public, third-party payors, and government of the alternate health care model.  F. There shall be no more than a total of one alternate health care model as described in this Part in the demonstration program, which shall be located in either Jefferson Parish or Orleans Parish.  Acts 2003, No. 571, §1; Acts 2018, No. 206, §4.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2175.15 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2175.15. Alternate health care model; children's respite care center

RS 2175.15 - Alternate health care model; children's respite care center A. Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, alternate health care models described in this Section may be established on a demonstration basis. B. The provisions of this Part concerning a children's respite care center shall not relieve the facility or program from any applicable requirement under R.S. 46:2683, for licensure by the Department of Children and Family Services to perform respite care services. C. The facility or program as authorized under this Part shall not be prohibited from acting as subcontractor to other licensed health care facilities or programs for the purpose of providing services as are within the scope of the department's rules and regulations relative to the licensure of the alternate health care model. Acts 2003, No. 571, §1.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2176 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2176. Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 4, §1, eff. May 7, 1999.

RS 2176 - Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 4, §1, eff. May 7, 1999.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2176.1 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2176.1. Pilot children's comfort care center

RS 2176.1 - Pilot children's comfort care center  A. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the Louisiana Department of Health shall allow Angels' Place, Inc. to establish a pilot program creating a freestanding children's comfort care center to provide comfort care for children with limited life expectancy and their families. Such care may include but need not be limited to:  (1) Respite care for such children and their families, to be available intermittently during the course of the child's illness.  (2) End-of-life care for children that includes whole child care in a child-centered, family-oriented, home-like setting for families who need a home-like option other than home.  (3) Whole family care consisting of supportive care for the whole family including accommodation for parents, specialized support for siblings and other persons important to the child, and bereavement support.  B. The Louisiana Department of Health shall report to the House and Senate Committees on Health and Welfare on the status of the pilot program established under Subsection A of this Section prior to the 2003 Regular Session. Angels' Place, Inc. shall cooperate with the department on the development of standards, if needed, for the pilot program. The report shall include but need not be limited to recommendations on the need for state agency regulation, if any, of children's comfort care centers such as that established under Subsection A of this Section.  C. The pilot program established under this Section shall terminate September 30, 2003.  Acts 2001, No. 923, §1, eff. June 26, 2001; Acts 2003, No. 571, §2.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2177 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2177. Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 4, §1, eff. May 7, 1999.

RS 2177 - Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 4, §1, eff. May 7, 1999.
LA Rev Stat § 40:2178 (2021)
2021 Louisiana Laws|Revised Statutes|Title 40 - Public Health and Safety|§2178. Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 4, §1, eff. May 7, 1999.

RS 2178 - Repealed by Acts 1999, No. 4, §1, eff. May 7, 1999.