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ID Code § 39-1391b (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1391b - EMERGENCY TREATMENT BY HOSPITAL NOT REQUIRED — DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED.

39-1391b. EMERGENCY TREATMENT BY HOSPITAL NOT REQUIRED — DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to require any hospital to provide facilities or personnel for the furnishing of such emergency or first aid services and care or to furnish such services and care, without admission by a licensed physician and surgeon, to any person who may request the same; provided, however, that emergency or first aid services and care shall not be refused to any person by reason of race, creed, national origin or financial ability to pay therefor.  History: [39-1391b, added 1973, ch. 82, sec. 3, p. 130.]
ID Code § 39-1391c (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1391c - IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY.

39-1391c. IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY. Any licensed physician and surgeon shall be conclusively presumed to be qualified to undertake and to furnish any emergency medical or surgical care and treatment, regardless of the specialty training or skills which might otherwise be preferred for care and treatment of the particular patient, whenever, in the good faith judgment of such physician and surgeon, the condition and best interests of the patient require such physician and surgeon to undertake such care and treatment, and, in the absence of gross negligence under the existing circumstances, no physician so proceeding nor any hospital where such care and treatment is provided shall be held liable in any civil action arising out of the furnishing of such emergency care and treatment. Nothing in this act shall be deemed to require any physician to undertake to or to furnish medical care and treatment, whether on an emergency basis or otherwise, to any person requesting or presented for such care and treatment, nor shall any such physician be held liable in any civil action by reason of his refraining from the furnishing of such care and treatment or referring the same to a specialist or other physician believed by him to be more uniquely or appropriately experienced and qualified. Neither shall any physician responding to any request for emergency care be held liable in any civil action by reason of failure to so respond with any greater promptness than may be reasonably required or expected, under the existing circumstances, of physicians and surgeons practicing in the particular community where such care and treatment is to be furnished.  History: [39-1391c, added 1973, ch. 82, sec. 4, p. 130.]
ID Code § 39-1392 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1392 - STATEMENT OF POLICY.

39-1392. STATEMENT OF POLICY. To encourage research, discipline and medical study by certain health care organizations for the purposes of reducing morbidity and mortality, enforcing and improving the standards of medical practice in the state of Idaho, certain records of such health care organizations shall be confidential and privileged as set forth in this chapter.  History: [39-1392, added 1973, ch. 265, sec. 1, p. 545; am. 1997, ch. 171, sec. 1, p. 486.]
ID Code § 39-1392b (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1392b - RECORDS CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED.

39-1392b. RECORDS CONFIDENTIAL AND PRIVILEGED. Except as provided in section 39-1392e, Idaho Code, all peer review records shall be confidential and privileged, and shall not be directly or indirectly subject to subpoena or discovery proceedings or be admitted as evidence, nor shall testimony relating thereto be admitted in evidence, or in any action of any kind in any court or before any administrative body, agency or person for any purpose whatsoever. No order of censure, suspension or revocation of licensure, or of a certification in the case of emergency medical services personnel, or health care organization privilege of any physician licensed to practice medicine in Idaho shall be admissible in any civil proceeding seeking damages or other civil relief against the physician, emergency medical services personnel, or health care organization which may be a defendant in said cause. However, this section shall not prohibit or otherwise affect the use of documents, materials or testimony in health care organization proceedings, nor shall it prohibit or otherwise affect the dissemination, for medical purposes, of information contained in such documents or materials or the conclusions and findings of such health care organization. This section shall not affect the admissibility in evidence in any action or proceeding of the patient care records of any patient.  History: [39-1392b, added 1973, ch. 265, sec. 3, p. 545; am. 1997, ch. 171, sec. 3, p. 487; am. 2003, ch. 244, sec. 2, p. 630; am. 2004, ch. 134, sec. 2, p. 456.]
ID Code § 39-1392c (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1392c - IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY.

39-1392c. IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL LIABILITY. The furnishing of information or provision of opinions to any health care organization or the receiving and use of such information and opinions shall not subject any health care organization or other person to any liability or action for money damages or other legal or equitable relief. Custodians of such records and persons becoming aware of such data and opinions shall not disclose the same except as authorized by rules adopted by the board of medicine or as otherwise authorized by law. Any health care organization may receive such disclosures, subject to an obligation to preserve the confidential privileged character thereof and subject further to the requirement that such requests shall be made and such use shall be limited to aid the health care organization in conducting peer review.  History: [39-1392c, added 1973, ch. 265, sec. 4, p. 545; am. 1997, ch. 171, sec. 4, p. 487; am. 2003, ch. 244, sec. 3, p. 631.]
ID Code § 39-1392d (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1392d - PROPERTY OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION.

39-1392d. PROPERTY OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION. All peer review records of a health care organization shall be the property of the health care organization concerned which obtains or compiles the same. A health care organization may provide peer review records to persons or entities that perform accreditation, certification or quality assurance review or evaluation of the health care organization. The provision of any peer review records to such persons or entities shall not be deemed to be a waiver by the health care organization of any peer review privilege. Persons and entities receiving peer review records shall preserve the confidential privileged character thereof and such persons and entities shall not be subject to subpoena or order compelling production of peer review records. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the health care organization to provide persons or entities with peer review records. A health care organization may provide peer review records to persons or entities with whom the health care organization is affiliated through any common ownership interest or by contract, which affiliation or contract includes the person’s or entity’s involvement in the peer review process or the provision of any management or administrative services to the health care organization. The provision of peer review records to such persons or entities shall not be deemed to be a waiver by the health care organization of any peer review privilege. Such persons and entities receiving peer review records shall preserve the confidential privileged character thereof, and such persons and entities shall not be subject to any subpoena or order compelling production of peer review records. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to require the health care organization to provide such persons or entities with peer review records. This section shall in no way impair the rights of individuals conducting such research or studies in the exercise of any right or the discharge of any legitimate responsibility which they may have in connection with such research or studies and the results thereof. Nothing in this act shall be construed as restricting or altering the rights of inspection and copying by patients and their duly authorized representatives with respect to such patients’ official patient care records, which right of copying and inspection and use of patient care records and their contents in appropriate judicial proceedings is unaltered by this enactment.  History: [39-1392d, added 1973, ch. 265, sec. 5, p. 545; am. 1997, ch. 171, sec. 5, p. 488; am. 2003, ch. 244, sec. 4, p. 631.]
ID Code § 39-1392f (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1392f - PEER REVIEW.

39-1392f. PEER REVIEW. Every hospital subject to this act shall cause the hospital’s medical staff to organize in-hospital medical staff committees which shall have the responsibility of reviewing the professional practices of members of the hospital’s medical staff for the purpose of reducing morbidity and mortality, and for the improvement of the care of patients in the hospital. This review shall include, but not be limited to, the quality and necessity of care provided to patients.  History: [39-1392f, added 1986, ch. 95, sec. 1, p. 273.]
ID Code § 39-1392g (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1392g - MEDICAL STAFF MEMBERSHIP AND PRIVILEGES.

39-1392g. MEDICAL STAFF MEMBERSHIP AND PRIVILEGES. (1) Except as specifically provided in subsection (2) of this section, nothing in this section shall in any way change the authority of the governing body of any health care organization to make such rules, regulations, standards or qualifications for medical staff membership as it, in its discretion, may deem necessary or advisable, or to grant or refuse membership on a medical staff. (2) An applicant for medical staff membership or privileges in a health care organization that has an organized medical staff, an applicant for reappointment to the medical staff of such health care organization, or a current member of the medical staff of such health care organization shall not be denied medical staff membership or privileges, nor shall membership or privileges be withdrawn, revoked, suspended or limited by such health care organization for the reason that: (a) The applicant or current member of the medical staff holds an ownership interest in one (1) or more competing health care organizations; (b) The applicant or current member of the medical staff is affiliated with one (1) or more competing health care organizations; or (c) The applicant or current member of the medical staff is a competitor of one (1) or more members of the medical staff. (3) Nothing in this section shall require a health care organization to grant privileges to an applicant for services that are subject to an exclusive contract or not offered in that facility. (4) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted as changing the privilege, confidentiality, discoverability and admissibility of the information and records granted in section 39-1392b, Idaho Code.  History: [39-1392g, added 2012, ch. 167, sec. 1, p. 447.]
ID Code § 39-1394 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1394 - PATIENT CARE RECORDS — RETENTION — AUTHENTICATION.

39-1394. PATIENT CARE RECORDS — RETENTION — AUTHENTICATION. (1) Retention. (a) Hospital records relating to the care and treatment of a patient may be preserved in microfilm, other photographically reproduced form or electronic medium. Such reproduced and preserved copies shall be deemed originals for purposes of section 9-420, Idaho Code. (b) Clinical laboratory test records and reports may be destroyed five (5) years after the date of the test recorded or reported therein, pursuant to paragraph (d) of this subsection. (c) X-ray films may be destroyed five (5) years after the date of exposure, or five (5) years after the patient reaches the age of majority, whichever is later, pursuant to paragraph (d) of this subsection, if there are in the hospital record written findings of a physician who has read such x-ray films. (d) At any time after the retention periods specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subsection, the hospital may, without thereby incurring liability, destroy such records, by burning, shredding or other effective method in keeping with the confidential nature of their contents, provided, however, that destruction of such records must be in the ordinary course of business and no record shall be destroyed on an individual basis. (e) For purposes of this section, the term "hospital" shall include all facilities defined as hospitals in chapter 13, title 39, Idaho Code. (2) Authentication. (a) Hospital records relating to orders for the care and treatment of a patient or for the administration of any drug or pharmaceutical must be authenticated to ensure accuracy and patient safety. (b) All orders must be authenticated by the author of the order or another practitioner who is responsible for the care of the patient and who is authorized to write orders by hospital policy in accordance with state law. (c) When telephone or oral orders must be used, they must be: (i) Accepted only by personnel authorized to do so by medical staff policies and procedures, consistent with federal and state law; and (ii) Authenticated in a timely manner as stipulated by hospital policy. (d) Authentication may occur either manually, with the practitioner’s signature, or electronically by facsimile transmission signed by the practitioner or by means of a unique electronic code known only to the practitioner. (e) Each hospital must have in place policies and mechanisms to assure timely authentication of all orders and to assure that only the author of an order or another practitioner who is responsible for the care of the patient and who is authorized to write orders by hospital policy in accordance with state law can authenticate the order.  History: [39-1394, added 1977, ch. 102, sec. 1, p. 217; am. 2001, ch. 67, sec. 1, p. 125; am. 2013, ch. 114, sec. 1, p. 275.]
ID Code § 39-1395 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1395 - PRACTICE OF PODIATRY — MEDICAL STAFF MEMBERSHIP.

39-1395. PRACTICE OF PODIATRY — MEDICAL STAFF MEMBERSHIP. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no provision or provisions of this section shall in any way change or modify the authority or power of the governing body of any hospital to make such rules, standards or qualifications for medical staff membership as they, in their discretion, may deem necessary or advisable, or to grant or refuse membership on a medical staff. An applicant for medical staff membership may not be denied membership solely on the ground that the applicant holds a license to practice podiatry issued by the Idaho state board of podiatry. The criteria utilized for granting medical staff membership shall be reasonable and shall not discriminate against podiatry. The process for considering applications for medical staff membership and privileges shall afford each applicant due process. All applications for medical staff membership shall be acted upon within one hundred twenty (120) days from the date the required information is submitted. The accordance and delineation of clinical privileges for podiatrists shall be determined on an individual basis and commensurate with the applicant’s education, training, experience and demonstrated competence. In implementing these procedures, each hospital shall formulate and apply reasonable standards that do not discriminate in the evaluation of an applicant’s credentials. A member of the medical staff licensed pursuant to chapter 18, title 54, Idaho Code, shall have responsibility for the overall medical care of the patient while in the hospital. Arrangements for the services of a member of the medical staff licensed pursuant to chapter 18, title 54, Idaho Code, for the purposes of this section shall be the sole responsibility of the admitting podiatrist and not that of the hospital or any other member of the medical staff.  History: [39-1395, added 1992, ch. 134, sec. 2, p. 423; am. 2004, ch. 133, sec. 1, p. 453.]
ID Code § 39-1396 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 13 - HOSPITAL LICENSES AND INSPECTION|Section 39-1396 - AUTHORITY TO ADMIT PATIENTS.

39-1396. AUTHORITY TO ADMIT PATIENTS. (1) A hospital or facility may grant to physicians, physician assistants and advanced practice nurses the privilege to admit patients to such hospital or facility; provided however, that admitting privileges may be granted only if the privileges are: (a) Recommended by the medical staff at the hospital or facility; (b) Approved by the governing board of the hospital or facility; and (c) Within the scope of practice conferred by the license of the physician, physician assistant or advanced practice nurse. (2) A hospital or facility shall specify in its bylaws the process by which its governing body and medical staff oversee those practitioners granted admitting privileges. Such oversight shall include, but is not limited to, credentialing and competency review.  History: [39-1396, added 2017, ch. 278, sec. 1, p. 728.]
ID Code § 39-1401 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 14 - HEALTH FACILITIES|Section 39-1401 - SHORT TITLE.

39-1401. SHORT TITLE. This act may be cited as the "Health Facilities Construction Act."  History: [39-1401, added 1947, ch. 220, sec. 1, p. 526; am. 1965, ch. 123, sec. 1, p. 240.]
ID Code § 39-1402 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 14 - HEALTH FACILITIES|Section 39-1402 - DEFINITIONS.

39-1402. DEFINITIONS. As used in this act: (a) "Agency" means the department of health and welfare; (b) "Federal act" shall mean, when applicable, either (1) Public Law 725 of the 79th Congress, approved August 13, 1946, entitled the Hospital Survey and Construction Act and amendments thereto or (2) Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Mental Health Centers Construction Act of 1963, Public Law 88-164, and amendments thereto or (3) Public Law 91-517 of the 91st Congress, and amendments thereto; (c) "Surgeon general" means the surgeon general of the United States department of health and human services; (d) "Health facilities" shall mean any of the following: (1) "Hospital" means a place devoted primarily to the maintenance and operation of facilities for the diagnosis, treatment or care for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of two (2) or more nonrelated individuals suffering from illness, disease, injury, deformity, or requiring care because of old age, or a place devoted primarily to providing for not less than twenty-four (24) hours in any week of obstetrical or other medical or nursing care for two (2) or more nonrelated individuals. The term hospital includes public health centers in general, tuberculosis, mental, chronic disease and other types of hospitals, and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, nurses’ home and training facilities, and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals; (2) A facility for the provision of public health services, including related facilities such as laboratories, clinics, and administrative offices operated in connection with said facility; (3) A facility specially designed for the diagnosis, treatment, education, training, or custodial care of people with intellectual disabilities, including facilities for training specialists and sheltered workshops for people with intellectual disabilities, but only if such workshops are part of facilities which provide or will provide comprehensive services for people with intellectual disabilities; (4) A facility providing services for the prevention or diagnosis of mental illness, or care and treatment of mentally ill patients, or rehabilitation of such persons, which services are provided principally for persons residing in a particular community or communities in or near which the facility is situated or at a statewide facility; (e) "Secretary" means the secretary of health and human services of the United States, or his delegate to administer the federal act; (f) "Nonprofit facility" means a facility which is owned and operated by one (1) or more nonprofit corporations or associations no part of the net earnings of which inures, or may lawfully inure, to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.  History: [39-1402, added 1947, ch. 220, sec. 2, p. 526; am. 1965, ch. 123, sec. 2, p. 240; am. 1972, ch. 327, sec. 1, p. 812; am. 1974, ch. 23, sec. 122, p. 633; am. 2010, ch. 235, sec. 25, p. 563; am. 2015, ch. 244, sec. 22, p. 1020.]
ID Code § 39-1403 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 14 - HEALTH FACILITIES|Section 39-1403 - ADMINISTRATION — DIVISION OF HEALTH FACILITIES SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION.

39-1403. ADMINISTRATION — DIVISION OF HEALTH FACILITIES SURVEY AND CONSTRUCTION. There is hereby established in the state department of health and welfare a division of health facilities survey and construction which shall be administered by a full time salaried director under the supervision and direction of the agency.  History: [39-1403, added 1947, ch. 220, sec. 3, p. 526; am. 1965, ch. 123, sec. 3, p. 240; am. 1972, ch. 327, sec. 2, p. 812.]
ID Code § 39-1404 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 39 - HEALTH AND SAFETY|Chapter 14 - HEALTH FACILITIES|Section 39-1404 - GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES.

39-1404. GENERAL POWERS AND DUTIES. In carrying out the purposes of the act, the agency is authorized and directed: (a) To require such reports, inspections and investigations and prescribe such regulations as it deems necessary; (b) To provide such methods of administration, appoint a director and other personnel of the division on a merit basis and take such other action as may be necessary to comply with the requirements of the federal act and the regulations thereunder; (c) To procure in its discretion the temporary or intermittent services of experts or consultants or organizations thereof, by contract, when such services are to be performed on a part-time or fee-for-service basis and do not involve the performance of administrative duties; (d) To the extent that it considers desirable to effectuate the purposes of this act, to enter into agreements for the utilization of the facilities and services of other departments, agencies, and institutions, public or private; (e) To accept on behalf of the state and to deposit with the state treasury any grant, gift or contribution made to assist in meeting the cost of carrying out the purposes of this act as herein provided; (f) To make a bi-annual report to the legislature on activities and expenditures pursuant to this act, including recommendations for such additional legislation as the agency considers appropriate to furnish adequate health facilities to the people of this state; (g) To do all other things on behalf of the state necessary to obtain full benefits under the federal act as now and hereafter amended.  History: [39-1404, added 1947, ch. 220, sec. 4, p. 525; am. 1965, ch. 123, sec. 4, p. 240; am. 1972, ch. 327, sec. 3, p. 812.]