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TN Code § 68-9-116 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 1 - General Provisions|§ 68-9-116. East Tennessee Chest Disease Hospital Not Affected

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to affect the continued operation and function of the East Tennessee Chest Disease Hospital or to deny to patients in the area that it serves the opportunity to be admitted to and receive treatment in that hospital, as the availability of facilities and the patient load permit.
TN Code § 68-9-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 2 - Quarantine|§ 68-9-201. Report of Diseased Persons — Immunity From Liability

  If any attending physician or other person knows or has good reason to suspect that a person having tuberculosis is behaving so as to expose other persons to infection, or is about to so conduct themselves, the attending physician or other person shall notify the state, district, municipal or county health officer of the name and address of the diseased person and the essential facts in the case.   State, district, municipal and county health officers involved in tuberculosis control and elimination shall notify appropriate health authorities of jurisdictions in the appropriate states, territories, and municipalities when an individual with confirmed or clinically diagnosed infectious tuberculosis or currently under treatment for tuberculosis disease relocates from Tennessee into another jurisdiction, such notification being subject to approval of the state health officer or such officer's designee. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, the commissioner of health is authorized to notify the appropriate tuberculosis infection control staff of this or another state of an individual's tuberculosis infection for the sole purpose of containing a potential threat to the public health and welfare or to assure completion of proper treatment of the diseased person. All persons who receive notification of the infectious condition of an individual under this subsection (b) shall hold the information in the strictest confidence and shall not reveal the information to others. A person making disclosure by providing patient identifying information and medical information related to the patient's tuberculosis status is immune from liability for making this disclosure of information for the purpose of preventing the further spread of disease and assuring completion of proper treatment of the diseased person.
TN Code § 68-9-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 2 - Quarantine|§ 68-9-202. Examination and Quarantine of Suspects

 The commissioner and all state, district, county or municipal health officers or their authorized deputies within their respective jurisdictions, are authorized, directed and empowered, when in their judgment it is necessary to protect the public health, to make or have examinations made by a duly licensed and practicing physician of this state to be selected by the health officer, of persons reasonably suspected because of known clinical or epidemiological evidence of having infectious tuberculosis, and to require persons found to have infectious tuberculosis to comply with all provisions of this chapter for protection of the public from exposure to tuberculosis, and also, when in the judgment of the commissioner or state, district, municipal or county health officers, it is necessary to protect the public health, the officers are directed and empowered to isolate or quarantine persons who, because of known clinical or epidemiological evidence, are suspected of having infectious tuberculosis; provided, that any person so suspected may have present at the time of examination a physician of the person's own choosing to participate in the examination.
TN Code § 68-9-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 2 - Quarantine|§ 68-9-203. Quarantine Conditions

 In establishing isolation or quarantine, the commissioner or state, district, municipal or county health officer having jurisdiction shall designate and define the length of time, site and any other conditions required of the person to be isolated or quarantined.
TN Code § 68-9-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 2 - Quarantine|§ 68-9-204. Quarantine — Commencement — Termination — Standards

  No one but the commissioner, a state, municipal, district or county health officer or such person's duly authorized representative shall establish and terminate isolation or quarantine of persons with infectious tuberculosis.   Isolation or quarantine may be established when clinical signs of the disease are shown to be present with the aid of such laboratory examination for diagnosis as the health officer may deem necessary, or isolation or quarantine may be established when tuberculosis is shown to be present in a communicable stage.   The release of a person from isolation or quarantine for tuberculosis shall be made when, in the judgment of the commissioner or the health officer, the disease is no longer communicable.   It is the duty of the commissioner to set up such clinical and laboratory criteria as may be necessary for the guidance of health officers in the performance of their duties as outlined in this section.
TN Code § 68-9-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 2 - Quarantine|§ 68-9-205. Detention Facilities

 The department may establish and maintain one (1) or more detention facilities as the commissioner deems appropriate to sufficiently confine all persons who refuse to be examined, treated, isolated or quarantined as provided for by this part.
TN Code § 68-9-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 9 - Tuberculosis|Part 2 - Quarantine|§ 68-9-207. Release for Voluntary Hospital Treatment — Recommitment

  If, at any time after being isolated or quarantined, any person so isolated or quarantined shall, in the opinion of the commissioner or health officer in charge of the place of isolation or quarantine, be a fit and proper person for release from the isolation or quarantine to become a voluntary patient in any hospital for the treatment of tuberculosis, then the commissioner or health officer is  authorized and empowered to release the isolated or quarantined person for admission into such a hospital.   If the isolated or quarantined person so released shall ever hereafter for any reason become a proper person against whom § 68-9-206 should be again invoked, the former release of the person from isolation or quarantine under this section shall not constitute a bar against again invoking § 68-9-206 or any other provisions of this chapter against the person, but the necessity for again invoking § 68-9-206 or any other provisions of this chapter shall be deemed and constitute a new and separate violation of this chapter.
TN Code § 68-11-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-204. Requirement for License — Governmental Institutions Exempted

   No person, partnership, association, corporation or any state, county or local government unit, or any division, department, board or agency of the governmental unit, shall establish, conduct, operate or maintain in this state any hospital, recuperation center, nursing home, home for the aged, residential HIV supportive living facility, assisted-care living facilities, home care organization, residential hospice, birthing center, prescribed child care center, renal dialysis clinic, outpatient diagnostic center, ambulatory surgical treatment center, adult care homes or traumatic brain injury residential homes as defined in this part, without having a license.   State or local government home care organizations may be excluded by the board.   An independent living facility is exempt from the licensure requirements of this part.     Any health care facility or local health department operated by the federal government shall be exempt from this part.   The board, in its discretion, shall be authorized to issue licenses to several licensees in such form as it may deem necessary to distinguish between and identify any of the facilities required to be licensed by the department.   Nothing in this part requires a person or entity providing hospice residential services as of July 1, 1992, to obtain a certificate of need as a residential hospice, if such person or entity, prior to July 1, 1992, had qualified for reimbursement as a hospice under the federal medicare program.
TN Code § 68-11-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-208. Hearings Before Board — Judicial Review

  Any licensee, or applicant for license, aggrieved by a decision or action of the department or board, pursuant to this part, may request a hearing before the board.   These proceedings and judicial review of the board's decision shall be in accordance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.
TN Code § 68-11-212 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-212. Placement and Adoption of Children Unaffected

 This part shall not be construed in any way to restrict or modify any law pertaining to the placement and adoption of children.
TN Code § 68-11-214 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-214. Personnel and Inspectors

  The department is authorized to employ all necessary administrative and clerical employees; and to employ one (1) or more inspectors, for such time as, in the judgment of the commissioner, may be necessary, who shall be well experienced in the operation of hospitals, and whose duty it is to:  Visit all institutions coming under the scope of this part and inspect them, insofar as it may be necessary to arrive at the necessary facts required to make a true and informative report to the board; and   Give advice, aid and encouragement to such institutions, in maintaining high professional ideals and good care of patients.     The department shall cooperate in the inspections and coordinate them with its other work.    The department shall not assign an individual to be a member of an inspection team for purposes of conducting an annual survey required for medicare or medicaid certification at a nursing home facility in which the individual works, or, at any previous time, has worked as an employee, as employment agency staff at the facility, or as an officer, consultant, or agent for the facility to be inspected. Prior to being employed by the department, all such individuals shall be required to disclose any previous employment at any and all nursing home facilities, including employment as an employee, as employment agency staff, or as an officer, consultant or agent.   The department shall not assign an individual to lead an inspection team conducting an inspection as a result of a complaint filed against a nursing home facility if the individual works, or, at any previous time, has worked as an employee, as employment agency staff at the facility, or as an officer, consultant, or agent for the facility to be inspected.    The department shall not assign an individual to be a part of an inspection team conducting an inspection as a result of a complaint filed against a nursing home facility if the individual works, or, at any previous time, has worked as an employee, as employment agency staff at the facility, or as an officer, consultant, or agent for the facility to be inspected.   Notwithstanding subdivision (c)(3)(A) to the contrary, the commissioner may allow for exceptions to subdivision (c)(3)(A) if the commissioner deems it necessary for the immediate protection of the health, safety or welfare of residents of a nursing home.
TN Code § 68-11-215 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-215. Salaries and Expenses

  The salaries of all employees shall be fixed by the department of human resources upon the advice of the commissioner.   All employees and members of the board shall be reimbursed for necessary expenses in the discharge of their official duties.   All reimbursement for travel expenses shall be in accordance with the comprehensive travel regulations as promulgated by the department of finance and administration and approved by the attorney general and reporter.   The expenses provided for in this section shall be incorporated as part of the budget of the department.
TN Code § 68-11-217 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-217. Christian Science Facilities Excepted

  Nothing in this part or the rules and regulations relative to medical treatment adopted pursuant to this part shall be construed as authorizing the supervision, regulation or control of the remedial care or treatment of patients or residents in, or over, any health care facility conducted for or by those who rely upon treatment by prayer through spiritual means in the practice of religion in accordance with the creed or tenets of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.   However, these institutions must comply with all rules and regulations relative to sanitation and safety as other institutions of similar category.
TN Code § 68-11-218 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-218. Disciplinary Action Reports

   The chief administrative official of each hospital or other health care facility shall report to the respective licensing board, committee, council, or agency any disciplinary action taken concerning any person licensed under title 63 or this title, when such action is related to professional ethics, professional incompetence or negligence, moral turpitude, or drug or alcohol abuse.   “Disciplinary action” shall include termination, suspension, reduction, or resignation of hospital privileges for any of the reasons listed in subdivision (a)(1).   The report shall be in writing and made within sixty (60) days of the date of the action.     The hospital or health care facility shall make available to the respective licensing board, committee, council, or agency, for examination, all records pertaining to the disciplinary action taken, notwithstanding § 63-1-150, § 63-6-228, or any other provision to the contrary.   Any individual who, as a member of any committee, employee, or contractor of any hospital or health care facility, files a report pursuant to this section, shall be immune from liability to the extent provided in § 63-1-150.
TN Code § 68-11-220 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-220. Hospital Billing Information Statements

  As used in this section, “hospital” includes hospitals as defined in § 68-11-201.    Within ten (10) days following discharge or release from confinement in a hospital, or within ten (10) days after the earliest date at which the expense from confinement or service may be determined, the hospital providing such services shall submit to the patient, or an authorized representative, a statement or billing containing the same charge or expense information required to be included on the uniform claim form pursuant to § 56-7-1008.   This statement shall not include charges of hospital-based physicians if billed separately.      Subsequent to the initial billing for services, the hospital shall, upon written request from the patient, an authorized representative, an insurance company, an employer, or other organization responsible for the reimbursement or payment of such services, provide a more detailed statement of specific services received and expenses incurred by the patient.   The hospital shall be allowed thirty (30) days from the receipt of a request to provide the statement.   All requests shall be made within one (1) year of discharge.
TN Code § 68-11-221 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-221. Deficiencies in Facilities—special Monitors

 During a suspension of admissions pursuant to § 68-11-252, the commissioner shall appoint one (1) or more special monitors, if the deficiency threatens serious bodily harm to the patients or residents of the facility. The commissioner may appoint a special monitor or monitors at any other time, if the commissioner has reason to believe that deficiencies exist in a facility that are detrimental to the direct care of the patients or residents. Whenever the appointment of monitors is utilized pursuant to this section, the commissioner shall appoint a sufficient number of monitors to ensure their presence in the facility for a minimum of twenty (20) hours per week. The monitors shall observe the operation of the facility, and shall submit written reports periodically to the commissioner on the operation of the facility. Persons appointed as monitors shall be duly qualified to discharge their responsibilities. While employed as monitors, they shall represent the department with the power to observe and review all of the facility's operation, with attention to those aspects for which the suspension of admission was imposed. When appointment of a monitor or monitors is mandated by this section, the facility shall be liable for the costs of the special monitors, until it has been determined that the deficiencies have been corrected. No part of such costs for which a facility is liable shall be recoverable by the facility, either directly or indirectly, from the medical assistance program administered pursuant to title 71, chapter 5, part 1. The commissioner may retain a monitor in a facility after correction to evaluate the facility's continued compliance, but it shall be at the expense of the department. The costs of such monitors shall be recoverable as follows:   Deduction of the amount of such costs from amounts otherwise due from the state to the facility and to remittance of such amounts to the department;   Addition of such costs to the facility's licensing fee, the renewal of the facility's license to be contingent upon the prior payment of such costs; or   By suit of the department in the circuit or chancery court to recover such costs.
TN Code § 68-11-222 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-222. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids) — Policies

  All acute care hospitals, birthing centers, prescribed child care centers, and ambulatory surgical treatment centers in Tennessee licensed pursuant to  this part shall adopt, in the discretion of the institution and in consultation with the institution's medical staff, appropriate policies regarding the testing of patients and staff for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and any other identified causative agent of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).   Acting in consultation with the department of health, the following state entities shall promulgate rules requiring the respective facilities and persons, regulated by such state entities, to adopt and appropriately utilize universal precautions for prevention of HIV transmission:  Board for licensing health care facilities, created under § 68-11-202;   Board of dentistry, created under § 63-5-101;   Board of medical examiners, created under § 63-6-101;   Board of medical examiners' committee on physician assistants, created under § 63-19-103;   Board of nursing, created under § 63-7-201;   Board of occupational therapy, created under § 63-13-216;   Board of optometry, created under § 63-8-103;   Board of osteopathic examination, created under § 63-9-101;   Board of physical therapy, created under § 63-13-318; and   Board of podiatric medical examiners, created under § 63-3-103.      In the event that an employee of a health care facility or an inpatient mental health facility licensed under title 33, a student studying at the health care facility or inpatient mental health facility licensed under title 33 or other care provider that renders services at the healthcare facility or inpatient mental health facility licensed under title 33 is exposed to the blood or other body fluid of a patient, the facility may require that patient's blood to be tested for the presence of the hepatitis B virus and the HIV/AIDS virus.   Such testing shall be performed at no charge to the patient and the results of such testing shall be confidential.
TN Code § 68-11-225 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 68 - Health, Safety and Environmental Protection|Chapter 11 - Health Facilities and Resources|Part 2 - Regulation of Health and Related Facilities|§ 68-11-225. Nursing Home Administrators — Unexpected Losses

  This section applies to situations in which licensed nursing homes suffer the unexpected loss of an administrator and provide for procedures to be followed in such cases.   “Unexpected loss” means the absence of a nursing home administrator due to serious illness or incapacity, unplanned hospitalization, death, resignation with less than thirty (30) days' notice or unplanned termination.   The procedures to be followed by the facility upon receiving notice of the unexpected loss of the administrator are as follows:  The facility shall notify the department within twenty-four (24) hours after notice of the unexpected loss of the administrator. Notification to the department shall identify an individual to be responsible for administration of the facility for the immediate future, not to exceed thirty (30) days. This responsible individual need not be licensed as an administrator and may be the facility's director of nursing;   Within seven (7) days of notice of the unexpected loss, the facility shall request a waiver of the appropriate regulations from the board; and   On or before the expiration of thirty (30) days after notice of the unexpected loss, the facility shall appoint a temporary administrator to serve until either a permanent administrator is employed or the request for a waiver is considered by the board, whichever occurs first. The temporary administrator shall be any of the following:  A full-time administrator licensed in Tennessee or any other state;   One (1) or more part-time administrators licensed in Tennessee. Part-time shall not be less than twenty (20) hours per week; or   A full-time candidate for licensure as a Tennessee administrator who has completed the required training.       The procedures set forth in subsection (c) shall be followed until the next regularly scheduled meeting of the board in which the board considers the facility's application for a waiver. At that meeting the board, after reviewing the circumstances, may grant, refuse or condition a waiver as necessary to protect the health, safety and welfare of the patients in the facility.   Any facility that follows the procedures set forth in subsection (c) shall not be subject to a civil penalty for absence of an administrator at any time preceding the board's consideration of the facility's request for a waiver.