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MS Code § 41-125-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-15. Administrative fines; corrective action plans

    If the licensing agency determines that a PPEC center is not in compliance with this chapter, or applicable rules, the licensing agency may request that the PPEC center submit a corrective action plan that demonstrates a good-faith effort to remedy each violation by a specific date, subject to the approval of the licensing agency.   The licensing agency may fine a PPEC center or employee found in violation of this chapter, or applicable rules, in an amount not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) for each violation.Such fine may not exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00) in the aggregate.   The failure to correct a violation by the date set by the licensing agency, or the failure to comply with an approved corrective action plan, is a separate violation for each day that the failure continues, unless the licensing agency approves an extension to a specific date.     In determining if a fine is to be imposed and in fixing the amount of any fine, the licensing agency shall consider the following factors:   The gravity of the violation, including the probability that death or serious physical or emotional harm to a child will result or has resulted, the severity of the actual or potential harm, and the extent to which the provisions of the applicable statutes or rules were violated.   Actions taken by the owner or operator to correct violations.   Any previous violations.   The financial benefit to the PPEC center of committing or continuing the violation.
MS Code § 41-125-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-17. Closing of a PPEC center

 Whenever a PPEC center voluntarily discontinues operation, it shall, at least thirty (30) days before the discontinuance of operation, inform each child's legal guardian of the fact and the proposed time of the discontinuance.
MS Code § 41-125-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-19. Rules establishing standards

  To carry out the intention of the Legislature to provide safe and sanitary facilities and healthful programs, the licensing agency shall adopt and publish rules to implement the provisions of this chapter, which shall include reasonable and fair standards.Any conflict between these standards and those that may be set forth in local, county or city ordinances shall be resolved in favor of those having statewide effect.Those standards shall relate to:   The assurance that PPEC services are family centered and provide individualized medical, developmental and family training services.   The maintenance of PPEC centers, based upon the size of the structure and number of children, relating to plumbing, heating, lighting, ventilation and other building conditions, including adequate space, which will ensure the health, safety, comfort and protection from fire of the children served.   The appropriate provisions of the most recent edition of the "Life Safety Code" shall be applied.   The number and qualifications of all personnel who have responsibility for the care of the children served.   All sanitary conditions within the PPEC center and its surroundings, including water supply, sewage disposal, food handling and general hygiene, and maintenance thereof, which will ensure the health and comfort of children served.   Programs and basic services promoting and maintaining the health and development of the children served and meeting the training needs of the children's parents or legal guardians.   Supportive, contracted, other operational and transportation services.   Maintenance of appropriate medical records, data and information relative to the children and programs.Those records shall be maintained in the facility for inspection by the agency.     The licensing agency shall adopt rules to ensure that:   No child attends a PPEC center for more than twelve (12) hours within a twenty-four-hour period.   No PPEC center provides services other than those provided to medically or technologically dependent children.
MS Code § 41-125-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-21. Construction and renovation; requirements

 The requirements for the construction or renovation of a PPEC center shall comply with:   All state and local requirements pertaining to building construction standards, including plumbing, electrical code, glass, manufactured buildings, accessibility for the physically disabled;   The minimum standards for physical facilities in the Mississippi Child Care Standards; and   The standards or rules adopted under this chapter.
MS Code § 41-125-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 125 - Prescribed Pediatric Extended Care Centers (PPEC)|§ 41-125-23. Penalty for violation

 Any person who violates any provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than Ten Thousand Dollars ($10,000.00).Each day of continuing violation is a separate offense.
MS Code § 41-127-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 127 - Telemedicine Services|§ 41-127-1. Licensed health care practitioners authorized to provide health care services via electronic means; standards of practice

 Subject to the limitations of the license under which the individual is practicing, a health care practitioner licensed in this state may prescribe, dispense, or administer drugs or medical supplies, or otherwise provide treatment recommendations to a patient after having performed an appropriate examination of the patient either in person or by the use of instrumentation and diagnostic equipment through which images and medical records may be transmitted electronically. Treatment recommendations made via electronic means, including issuing a prescription via electronic means, shall be held to the same standards of appropriate practice as those in traditional provider-patient settings.
MS Code § 41-129-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 129 - Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program Act|§ 41-129-1. Umbilical cord blood banking program established; duties of State Department of Health; funding

  Short title.This section shall be known and may be cited as "The Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program Act."     Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program; establishment; duties of the State Department of Health; funding.The Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Awareness Program is established and the State Department of Health is authorized to promote public awareness of the potential benefits of cord blood banking.   The department shall:   Develop a public education and outreach campaign via written materials, brochures, the Internet, and public service announcements to promote cord blood banking awareness and the benefits of cord blood banking.   Develop educational materials and brochures which shall be made available to health care practitioners, including obstetricians, gynecologists and pediatricians, health maintenance organizations, hospitals, walk-in medical centers, mobile care units, surgical centers, urgent care centers, and clinics and organizations serving pregnant women.   Promote professional education programs for health care providers on the benefits of cord blood banking.   Promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act.       The State Department of Health shall accept and expend any grants, awards or other funds as may be made available for the purposes of this section. Subject to an appropriation from the Legislature, the department shall implement the provisions of this section.   The State Department of Health is prohibited from using the Umbilical Cord Blood Banking Program for cloning or DNA research purposes.   Cord blood banks may prepare and provide brochures and other written materials for distribution to promote cord blood banking awareness and the benefits of cord blood banking, if the brochures and materials are first approved by the State Department of Health.
MS Code § 41-133-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients|§ 41-133-1. Definitions

 For the purposes of this chapter:   "Aftercare" means any assistance provided by a designated lay caregiver to an individual under this chapter after the patient's discharge from a hospital. The assistance may include tasks that are limited to the patient's condition at the time of discharge that do not require a licensed professional.   "Discharge" means a patient's exit or release from a hospital to the patient's residence after any inpatient stay.   "Hospital" means a facility licensed under the provisions of Section 41-9-1 et seq.   "Lay caregiver" means any individual eighteen (18) years of age or older, including next-of-kin, duly designated as a lay caregiver under this chapter who provides aftercare assistance to a patient in the patient's residence.   "Residence" means a dwelling considered by a patient to be his or her home, not including any hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation facility, assisted living facility or group home licensed by the State Department of Health.
MS Code § 41-133-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients|§ 41-133-3. Opportunity to designate lay caregiver; timing; by whom

  Upon inpatient admission to a hospital, each patient or patient's legal guardian shall have the opportunity to designate one (1) lay caregiver after the patient's admission into a hospital and before the patient's discharge to the residence.   If the patient is unconscious or otherwise incapacitated upon inpatient admission to the hospital, the patient's legal guardian shall have an opportunity to designate one (1) lay caregiver after the patient's recovery of consciousness or capacity, so long as the designation or lack of designation does not interfere with, delay or otherwise affect the medical care provided to the patient.   If the patient or the patient's legal guardian does not designate a lay caregiver under this chapter, the hospital shall document that in the patient's medical record.   If the patient or the patient's legal guardian designates a lay caregiver under this subsection (1), the hospital shall promptly request the written consent of the patient or the patient's legal guardian to release medical information to the designated lay caregiver in accordance with the hospital's established procedures for releasing personal health information and in compliance with applicable state and federal law.   If the patient or the patient's legal guardian does not consent to the release of medical information to the designated lay caregiver, the hospital is not required to provide notice to the lay caregiver under Section 41-133-5.   If the patient or the patient's legal guardian designates a lay caregiver under this subsection (1), the hospital shall record the designation of the lay caregiver, the relationship of the lay caregiver to the patient, and the name, telephone number and physical address of the designated lay caregiver in the patient's medical record.     A patient or the patient's legal guardian may elect to change his or her designated lay caregiver if the lay caregiver becomes incapacitated.   Designation of a lay caregiver by a patient or a patient's legal guardian under this chapter does not obligate any individual to perform any aftercare tasks for the patient.   This section shall not be construed so as to require a patient or a patient's legal guardian to designate any individual as a lay caregiver.
MS Code § 41-133-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients|§ 41-133-5. Notification to designated lay caregiver of patient's discharge

 If a patient or the patient's legal guardian has designated a lay caregiver under this chapter, a hospital shall notify the designated lay caregiver of the patient's discharge to the patient's residence or transfer to another licensed facility as soon as practicable. If the hospital is unable to contact the designated lay caregiver, the lack of contact shall not interfere with, delay or otherwise affect the medical care provided to the patient, or an appropriate discharge of the patient.
MS Code § 41-133-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients|§ 41-133-7. Providing information about aftercare to patient and designated lay caregiver

 If a patient or patient's legal guardian has designated a lay caregiver, a hospital employee shall provide an opportunity for the caregiver and patient to ask questions about the aftercare tasks and shall discuss the discharge plan with the caregiver in a competent manner and in accordance with the hospital's requirements under state and federal law.
MS Code § 41-133-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients|§ 41-133-9. Chapter not to interfere with rights under Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act

  Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to interfere with the rights of a person legally authorized to make health care decisions under the Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act, Section 41-41-201 et seq.   Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to create a private right of action against a hospital, hospital employee, a duly authorized agent of the hospital, or otherwise supersede or replace existing rights or remedies under any other general or special law.
MS Code § 41-133-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 133 - Lay Caregivers for Hospital Patients|§ 41-133-11. Use of state or federal funds for payment to lay caregiver prohibited

 No state or federal funds shall be used for payment to any lay caregiver as defined in this chapter after discharge from a hospital, and no state or federal program funding shall be impacted by this chapter.
MS Code § 41-135-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 135 - Support and Promotion of Breast-Feeding in Mississippi|§ 41-135-1. Legislative findings and intent

  The Legislature of the State of Mississippi acknowledges that extensive research demonstrates the wide-ranging and compelling benefits of breast-feeding for infants, mothers, families and communities, including:   Numerous health benefits to the child, such as lower incidences of SIDS, childhood obesity, asthma, allergies and diabetes as well as increased intelligence and parental attachment;   Numerous health benefits to the mother, such as decreased rates of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, postpartum hemorrhage, and reduced rates of obesity through increased postpartum weight loss; and   Significant economic and social benefits to the state, such as reduced health care costs, and reduced employee absenteeism for care attributable to child illness as well as direct saving to families, as the United States Surgeon General estimates that the average family can save between One Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($1,200.00) and One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) during a baby's first year of life through breast-feeding.     The Legislature also recognizes, despite these numerous benefits, that Mississippi has one of the lowest breast-feeding rates in the country and acknowledges that mothers in Mississippi face many barriers to breast-feeding. One (1) of these barriers is education, which many studies and reports have found to be a significant obstacle that inhibits the practice of breast-feeding. Many mothers are ill-informed about the benefits of breast-feeding and their rights as a breast-feeding mother.   Therefore, the Legislature declares the intent of this chapter is to inform mothers about the benefits of breast-feeding and their rights as a breast-feeding mother in order to promote increased rates of breast-feeding in Mississippi.
MS Code § 41-135-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 135 - Support and Promotion of Breast-Feeding in Mississippi|§ 41-135-3. Definitions

 As used in this chapter, the following words and phrases have the meanings as defined in this section:   "Prenatal" means the period between conception to birth.   "Perinatal" means the period from twenty-two (22) weeks of gestation to twenty-eight (28) days after birth.   "Public place" means a place of increased patient traffic within the maternal health care facility such as a lobby area or waiting room.   "Maternal health care facility" means any facility that provides prenatal or perinatal care, including, but not limited to, hospitals, clinics and other physician facilities.   "Maternal health care provider" means any physician, nurse or other authorized practitioner that attends to pregnant women and mothers of infants.   "Breast-Feeding in Mississippi: Guidelines" is the statement of rights required by Section 41-135-7.
MS Code § 41-135-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 135 - Support and Promotion of Breast-Feeding in Mississippi|§ 41-135-5. Adoption of breast-feeding infant feeding policy by hospitals that provide birth services

  Hospitals that provide birth services may adopt an infant feeding policy that promotes and supports breast-feeding. Any infant feeding policies adopted under this section shall include guidance on the use of formula (a) for medically necessary supplementation; (b) if preferred by the mother; or (c) when exclusive breast-feeding is not advised for the mother and/or infant.   Any breast-feeding infant feeding policy adopted under this section must be written down and all relevant hospital personnel, including, but not limited to, obstetric and neonatal staff, must be trained in the necessary skills to implement the adopted policy.   Hospitals may make a copy of their breast-feeding infant feeding policy available to the State Department of Health.
MS Code § 41-135-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 135 - Support and Promotion of Breast-Feeding in Mississippi|§ 41-135-7. Breast-Feeding in Mississippi: Guidelines

  The State Department of Health shall prepare a statement of rights regarding "Breast-Feeding in Mississippi: Guidelines." Maternal health care facilities in the state should make every reasonable effort to post a copy of the statement of rights conspicuously in a public place of the maternal health care facility. The statement of rights shall be of an adequate size and font so as to be easily read by all visitors and/or patients within the room or space.   The State Department of Health shall make available to every maternal health care provider and maternal health care facility, via its website, a template copy of the statement of rights for use within their facilities. If they post a statement of rights, maternal health care providers and maternal health care facilities are free to choose whether to use the Department of Health template or develop their own copy as long as it comports to the visibility requirements in subsection (1) of this section.   The State Department of Health shall revise the "Breast-feeding in Mississippi: Guidelines" as needed to reflect advances in research regarding breast-feeding and to incorporate any additional rights of breast-feeding mothers as subsequently granted by the Mississippi Legislature, and hospitals may post the revised version of the "Breast-feeding in Mississippi: Guidelines" within three (3) months of its updated publishing.   The State Board of Health shall adopt any rules and regulations necessary to ensure the display of these rights.
MS Code § 41-135-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 41 - Public Health|Chapter 135 - Support and Promotion of Breast-Feeding in Mississippi|§ 41-135-9. Preparation of video about importance of breast-feeding infants for presentation in certain Department of Health offices and other state agencies

 The State Department of Health shall prepare a video in an appropriate medium for presentation in offices of the department in which the department provides benefits to women of child-bearing age, which shall provide information about the importance of breast-feeding infants. Applicants for and recipients of any such benefits provided by the department may view the video in the offices of the department. The department may provide the video to other state agencies that provide benefits to women of child-bearing age, for appropriate use by those agencies.
MS Code § 43-9-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 9 - Old Age Assistance|§ 43-9-1. Statewide system of old age assistance

 For the purpose of providing for aged persons in need, a statewide system of old age assistance is hereby established and shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of this state to operate with due regard to the varying conditions and cost of living, to be financed by state appropriations therefor, and to be administered by the Department of Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services, as hereinafter provided.
MS Code § 43-9-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 9 - Old Age Assistance|§ 43-9-3. Short title

 This chapter and Chapter 1 of this title shall be known as the "Mississippi Old Age Security Law" and shall be cited as such.
MS Code § 43-9-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 9 - Old Age Assistance|§ 43-9-5. Definitions

 When used herein, the term "department" means the State Department of Public Welfare; "commissioner" means the state commissioner of public welfare; "board" means the state board of public welfare; "applicant" means a person applying for assistance under this chapter; "recipient" means a person receiving aid under the provisions of this chapter; "assistance" means money payments including vendor payments made to or in behalf of needy aged persons hereunder; "county department" means the county board of public welfare, the director of public welfare, and such other personnel as may be authorized in said department by the State Department of Public Welfare.
MS Code § 43-9-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 43 - Public Welfare|Chapter 9 - Old Age Assistance|§ 43-9-7. Eligibility for assistance to the needy aged

 Assistance shall be given under this chapter to any person who:   Has attained the age of sixty-five (65) years;   Has resided in the state for one (1) year immediately preceding his application and such residence shall not have been established solely or in part for the purpose of enabling the applicant to come within the provisions of this chapter;   Resides in the county in which application is made;   Has not sufficient income or other resources to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health;   Is not an inmate of or being maintained by any county, municipal, state, or national institution at the time of receiving assistance except as a patient in a public medical institution, or is not a patient in any institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases, or is not a patient in any medical institution as a result of having been diagnosed as having tuberculosis or psychosis; in the event the federal Social Security Act or other appropriate federal statutes are so amended as to permit funds appropriated by congress to be used for assistance to aged persons who are inmates of public institutions, then being an inmate of any such institution shall not disqualify any such person for assistance. An inmate of a public institution may, however, make application for such assistance but the assistance if granted shall not begin until after he ceases to be an inmate;   Has not made an assignment or transfer of property so as to render himself eligible for assistance under this chapter at any time within two (2) years immediately prior to the filing of an application for assistance pursuant to the provisions hereof.