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MA Gen L ch 111 § 24b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 24b - Birth Information; Statistical Purposes

Section 24B. Upon the birth of any child, the physician, certified nurse midwife, administrator or other person in charge of a hospital, or any other person responsible for reporting a birth pursuant to chapter 46 shall forward to the commissioner any information, including the residence address and social security number of each parent, as required by the commissioner for administrative, research and statistical purposes, including the purposes of the IV–D agency as set forth in chapter 119A. Access to such information by the IV–D agency shall include electronic access. Such data that is included in the certificate of birth shall be transmitted within ten days of the birth of the child and shall not constitute a public record and shall not be available except for the foregoing purposes. Disclosure of information for research purposes which may identify any person named in any vital record or report restricted by section 2A of chapter 46 or by this section may only be made in accordance with regulations promulgated pursuant to section 4 of chapter 17, which regulations shall require the submission of written requests for information by researchers and the execution of research agreements that protect the confidentiality of the information provided. Such agreements shall prohibit the release by the researcher of any information that might identify any person. For the purposes of this chapter, research means a systematic investigation designed primarily to develop or contribute to general knowledge, including public health, medical, social, demographic and historical research. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the release of information or data that would not identify any person named in a vital record or report.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 24e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 24e - Comprehensive Family Planning Services; Program Establishment

Section 24E. For the purposes of this section, the term ''comprehensive family planning services'' shall mean those medical, educational, and social services that assist individuals of childbearing age, including sexually active minors, in determining the number and spacing of their children.  The department shall establish within its health promotion division a program for comprehensive family planning services for all persons without regard to religion, race, color, national origin, creed, handicap, sex, number of pregnancies, marital status, age, or contraceptive preference, who do not receive medical assistance under chapter one hundred and eighteen E.  Comprehensive family planning services provided pursuant to this section shall be no less in scope than such services provided by the department of public welfare pursuant to chapter one hundred and eighteen E. Services shall be provided in a manner which protects the dignity of the recipient. Service providers shall assure confidentiality and shall protect the privacy of recipients in a manner consistent with the provisions of 5 USC 552a. No information obtained regarding a recipient shall be disclosed without the consent of said recipient, except as required by law or as necessary to provide such services. Information may be disclosed in summary, statistical, or other form which does not identify individual recipients. Recipients shall accept such services on a voluntary basis. Income standards for eligibility shall be established by the department; provided, however, that such standards shall not be less than two hundred percent of the non-farm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the United States department of health and human services. A sworn affidavit as to income by an applicant shall be sufficient to establish eligibility. This section shall be the responsibility of the division of health promotion. Services provided hereunder shall be provided by agencies operating under the provisions of 42 USC 300, 300a or comprehensive family planning agencies as defined by the department of public welfare.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 24h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 24h - Managed Care Program Within Community Health Centers

Section 24H. The department shall, subject to appropriation, establish a program of managed care within community health centers pursuant to regulations promulgated by the department; provided, however, that the department may transfer funds to the division of medical assistance to provide medical benefits pursuant to section 9A of chapter 118E equal to the cost of providing such benefits to persons eligible for said programs. Any revenues generated by said program shall be credited to the General Fund.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 24i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 24i - Universal Immunization Program

Section 24I. There is hereby established a universal immunization program. Said program shall be administered by the department, subject to appropriation. Any revenues generated by said program shall be credited to the General Fund.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 24j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 24j - Medical Respite Services Program

Section 24J. There is hereby established a program of medical respite services provided by the Boston health care for the homeless program. Said program shall be administered by the department, subject to appropriation. Any revenues generated by said program shall be credited to the General Fund.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 24k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 24k - Pediatric Palliative Care Program; Eligibility; Services

Section 24K. There is hereby established the pediatric palliative care program. Said program shall be administered by the department, subject to appropriation, under this section and regulations promulgated hereunder. The program shall assist eligible children with a life-limiting illness and their families or guardians with services designed to achieve an improved quality of life and to meet the physical, emotional and spiritual needs experienced during the course of illness, death and bereavement.  Children less than 19 years of age shall be eligible for said program if they meet the requirements established by the department, which shall include:—  (a) a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness, including but not limited to, cancer, AIDS, congenital anomalies and other advanced illnesses; provided however, no requirement regarding life expectancy shall be imposed; and  (b) a requirement that the eligible child not be covered by a third-party payer for the services provided by said program.  Services provided by the program shall be determined by the department and shall include, but not be limited to, consultations for pain and symptom management, case management and assessment, social services, counseling, bereavement services, volunteer support services, and respite services, provided by professional or volunteer staff under professional supervision. Services shall be provided by hospice programs licensed under section 57D who meet such other criteria as the department may establish by regulation, including demonstrated expertise in pediatric palliative care. The department may by regulation establish limits on services provided by said program. The program established by this section shall not give rise to enforceable legal rights in any party or an enforceable entitlement to the services described in this section and nothing stated in this section shall be construed as giving rise to such enforceable legal rights or such enforceable entitlement.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25 - Publication of Certificate of Examination or Results of Analyses

Section 25. The department shall publish in each issue of its official departmental publication, and also, if in its opinion the public health can be served thereby, may publish in one or more newspapers in the commonwealth, a certificate of the examination or analysis made under its authority during the preceding months of any article of food manufactured or offered for sale in the commonwealth which is adulterated within the meaning of chapter ninety-four; and it shall also publish, with such certificate of examination, a statement of the trade mark, brand mark or name, with the name and place of business of the manufacturer, appearing upon the package or box containing such adulterated article, or with the name and place of business of the wholesale dealer of whom the goods were obtained.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25b1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25b1/2 - Expenditure Minimums; Annual Adjustments

Section 25B1/2. Expenditure minimums established pursuant to section twenty-five B shall be adjusted annually by the department after consideration of any inflation index set by the Secretary of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25d - Financing for Construction of Health Care Facility or Change in Services of Facility; Notice of Intent; Necessity of Application for Determination of Need; Acceptance of Gifts; Governmental Bodies as Applicant; Report

Section 25D. Every person, at least thirty days prior to making a public solicitation of funds or otherwise securing financing for construction of a health care facility or a substantial change in the services of a facility, shall file written notice of his intent to do so with the department. In the case of a solicitation of funds from the general public, the department may require such person to file an application for a determination of need for such construction or substantial change in services and to postpone any such public solicitation of funds until such application has been acted upon by the department and such need has been found to exist; provided, however, that failure of the department to comment upon a notice of intent shall not be construed to constitute a determination that such need exists. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit any person or agency subject to sections twenty-five C to twenty-five G, inclusive, from accepting gifts, and the provisions of this section shall not apply to any such solicitation or securing of financing where the undertaking to be funded is not sufficiently specific to constitute the subject matter of an application for determination of need under section twenty-five C.  Each agency of the commonwealth and its political subdivisions desiring to make substantial capital expenditure for construction of a health care facility or to substantially change the services of such a facility shall make application for determination of need therefor pursuant to section twenty-five C, and the department shall transmit a report of its determination thereon to the agencies empowered to recommend and to make appropriations of money for the applicant agency.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25e - Administrative Appeal to Health Facilities Appeals Board; Hearing; Decision; Judicial Review

Section 25E. Any person or agency filing an application for determination of need or empowered to request a public hearing under the provisions of section twenty-five C, and aggrieved by the determination thereof may, within fourteen days after such determination, file an appeal to the health facilities appeals board established by section one hundred and sixty-six of chapter six. The appellant shall include with any such appeal a certificate stating that said appeal is not knowingly interposed for delay.  The board in considering any such appeal shall restrict itself to a review of materials on file with the department and to consideration of whether the determination appealed from was an abuse of discretion, without observance of procedure required by law or in violation of applicable provisions of law. In the event the board determines that the materials available to it are inadequate to allow the required consideration, it may order a hearing on the appeal. Such appeal shall be heard by the board or its designated hearing officer within thirty days after its filing. If the matter is heard by a hearing officer, such officer, within thirty days after hearing, shall submit a recommended decision, reasons therefor and a determination of each issue of fact or law incident to said recommended decision to the board. The board shall, within sixty days after filing of the appeal, issue a final decision, either denying the appeal, in which case said decision shall be subject to judicial review under the provisions of section fourteen of chapter thirty A to the extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section, or order the matter remanded to the department for action consistent with the opinion of the board. All proceedings of the board shall be subject to the provisions of chapter thirty A to the extent they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this section. Failure of the board to issue a final decision within one hundred and twenty days after filing of the appeal shall constitute a final decision affirming the action of the department and denying the appeal.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25f - Rules and Regulations; Effective Date

Section 25F. The department and the health facilities appeals board are hereby authorized and directed to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of sections twenty-five C to twenty-five G, inclusive; provided, however, that no new promulgated rule or regulation shall take effect before the thirtieth day next following the date which a copy of the rule or regulation shall have been filed with the joint committee on health care of the general court.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25g - Enforcement of Secs. 25c to 25g

Section 25G. The superior and supreme judicial courts shall have jurisdiction, upon request of the department, the appropriate regional comprehensive health planning agency, or of any ten taxpayers in the commonwealth to enforce the provisions of sections twenty-five C to twenty-five G, inclusive. A violation of such provisions shall subject the violator to liability for a civil penalty of not more than five hundred dollars for each day of such violation, assessable by the superior court. Any violation of such provisions also shall constitute grounds for refusing to grant or renew, modifying or revoking the license of a health care facility or of any part thereof.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25h - Severability of Secs. 25c to 25g; Voidability of Provisions in Violation of Federal Law

Section 25H. The provisions of sections twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, are severable and if any provision shall be in violation of any federal rule or regulation established by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare as a condition for receiving federal funds in connection with any program administered by said department, such provision shall be null and void and such violation shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25i - Guidelines for the Reduction of Medication Waste in Licensed Facilities

Section 25I. The department, in conjunction with the board of registration in pharmacy and the division of medical assistance, shall establish and implement guidelines to reduce medication waste in facilities licensed by the department, the department of mental health and the department of corrections. The department shall establish such guidelines, based on its review, that are determined to be effective in reducing waste without imposing unreasonable costs on the health care delivery system. In establishing such guidelines the department may consider the following: (i) current technology, standards and reimbursement mechanisms for dispensing and distributing medications to facilities; (ii) requirements implemented in other states for limiting prescription drug waste and any cost-savings realized; (iii) the commonwealth's standards for the return and re-dispensing of patient-specific schedule VI prescription drugs; and (iv) possible incentive mechanisms to prevent prescription drug waste. The department shall promulgate regulations to implement this section.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25j1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25j1/2 - Intervention Prior to Discharge From Acute-Care Hospital or Satellite Emergency Facility to Reduce Risk of Subsequent Harm and Fatality Following Opioid-Related Overdose

Section 25J1/2. An acute-care hospital, as defined in section 25B, that provides emergency services in an emergency department and a satellite emergency facility, as defined in section 51.5, shall maintain, as part of its emergency services, protocols and capacity to provide appropriate, evidence-based interventions prior to discharge that reduce the risk of subsequent harm and fatality following an opioid-related overdose including, but not limited to, institutional protocols and capacity to possess, dispense, administer and prescribe opioid agonist treatment, including partial agonist treatment, and offer such treatment to patients who present in an acute-care hospital emergency department or a satellite emergency facility for care and treatment of an opioid-related overdose; provided, however, that such treatment shall occur when it is recommended by the treating healthcare provider and is voluntarily agreed to by the patient. An acute-care hospital that provides emergency services in an emergency department, and a satellite emergency facility, shall demonstrate compliance with applicable training and waiver requirements established by the federal drug enforcement agency and the substance abuse and mental health services administration relative to prescribing opioid agonist treatment. Prior to discharge, any patient who is administered or prescribed an opioid agonist treatment in an acute care hospital emergency department or satellite emergency facility shall be directly connected to an appropriate provider or treatment site to voluntarily continue said treatment.  The department may issue regulations pursuant to this section.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25k (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25k - Educational Insert Accompanying Sale of Hypodermic Syringes and Needles

Section 25K. The department shall develop an educational insert to accompany the sale of hypodermic syringes and needles. This educational insert shall include, but not be limited to: (1) information on the proper use of hypodermic syringes and needles; (2) the risk of blood-borne diseases that may result from the use of hypodermic syringes and needles and methods for preventing contracting or transmitting such diseases; (3) proper hypodermic syringe and needle disposal practices; and (4) the toll-free telephone numbers of the commonwealth's AIDS and Hepatitis C hotlines and the Massachusetts Substance Abuse Information and Education Helpline. This educational insert shall be provided to purchasers of hypodermic syringes or needles at the point of sale.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25n1/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25n1/2 - Primary Care Residency Grant Program

Section 25N1/2. (a) As used in this section, ''primary care provider'', shall mean a health care professional qualified to provide general medical care for common health care problems who: (1) supervises, coordinates, prescribes or otherwise provides or proposes health care services; (2) initiates referrals for specialist care; and (3) maintains continuity of care within the scope of practice.  (b) Pursuant to regulations to be promulgated by the health care workforce center, there shall be established a primary care residency grant program for the purpose of financing the training of primary care providers at teaching community health centers. Eligible applicants shall include teaching community health centers accredited through affiliations with a commonwealth-funded medical school or licensed as part of a teaching hospital with a residency program in primary care or family medicine and teaching health centers that are the independently accredited sponsoring organization for the residency program and whose residents are employed by the health center. Eligible residency programs shall be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.  To receive funding, an applicant shall: (1) include a review of recent graduates of the community health center's residency program, including information regarding what type of practice said graduates are involved in 2 years following graduation from the residency program; and (2) achieve a threshold of at least 50 per cent for the percentage of graduates practicing primary care within 2 years after graduation. Graduates practicing more than 50 per cent inpatient care or more than 50 per cent specialty care as listed in the American Medical Association Masterfile shall not qualify as graduates practicing primary care.  Awardees of the primary care residency grant program shall offer a 9 to 12 month residency program and maintain their teaching accreditation as either an independent teaching community health center or as a teaching community health center accredited through affiliation with a commonwealth-funded medical school or licensed as part of a teaching hospital.  The health care workforce center shall determine through regulation grant amounts per full-time resident. Funds for such grants shall come from the Health Care Workforce Transformation Fund established under section 2FFFF of chapter 29.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 25n3/4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 25n3/4 - Primary Care Workforce Development and Loan Forgiveness Grant Program

Section 25N3/4. There shall be established a primary care workforce development and loan forgiveness grant program at community health centers, for the purpose of enhancing recruitment and retention of primary care physicians and other clinicians at community health centers throughout the commonwealth. The grant program shall be administered by the department of public health; provided, that the department may contract with an organization to administer the grant program. Funds may be matched by other public and private funds.