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MA Gen L ch 111 § 62q (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 62q - Powers and Duties of Trustees; Management; Admissions; Approval

Section 62Q. The said trustees shall have the same powers and shall perform the same duties in the management and control of the said hospital for state wards as are vested in and required of them in their administration and control of the hospital school under sections sixty-two J to sixty-two O, inclusive, so far as applicable. No state wards shall be admitted to or received at the said hospital without the approval of the trustees and the written order of an authorized agent of the department, nor released from said hospital without notice to the said department.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 62r (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 62r - Use of Land, Buildings and Farm Products by Hospital School and Hospital for State Minor Wards

Section 62R. Any land acquired or buildings erected for the Massachusetts hospital school or the hospital for state minor wards, unless it is otherwise expressly provided, and also any farm product raised at the said hospital school, or at the said hospital, may, as the trustees shall from time to time determine, be used either interchangeably or exclusively for said hospital school or said hospital, or in common for the benefit of both institutions, and for the care and maintenance of their respective inmates, officers, employees and attendants. Such officers, employees and attendants shall, as required by the trustees, render service to either or both of the said institutions. Any sewer, heating, ventilating, water or similar plant or system may so be used, separately or jointly.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 62s (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 62s - Assignment of State Minor Wards to Hospital; Approval

Section 62S. No state minor wards shall be assigned to the said hospital until the commissioner, with the approval of the governor and council, finds that sufficient new building accommodations have been constructed to provide for the number thus to be assigned.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 63 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 63 - Supervision and Control by Commissioner

Section 63. The commissioner shall have general supervision and control of the Rutland hospital, the Lakeville hospital, and the Western Massachusetts hospital and shall see that the affairs of such hospitals are conducted according to law, and to the by-laws and regulations established by the council in respect thereto.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 63a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 63a - Admissions to Hospital

Section 63A. Subject to such rules and regulations as the department may provide, the superintendent of any hospital administered by the department shall be authorized to admit to any such hospital any person, including any person who is mentally ill, or suffering from an intellectual disability or suffering from any other mental disability, providing the admitting hospital is suitable for the care and treatment of such person.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 63b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 63b - Medicare Program Billings; Commissioner's Report

Section 63B. The department of public health shall bill the Medicare program established by Title XVIII of the Social Security Act for all patients cared for in hospitals operated by the department who have received or are eligible to receive a Medicare health insurance number. The department shall bill the Medicare program for all services provided to such patients since January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine, the effective date of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988 (Public Law 100–360), as amended. The department shall make the billings required by this section within the time for billing services which are applicable to the Medicare program for the billing of patient care services which are applicable to the Medicare program.  By February first, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, the commissioner of public health shall issue a report to the house and senate committees on ways and means which shall provide the following information with respect to each hospital operated by the department: (a) the number and percentage of patients billed to the Medicaid program since January first, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine; (b) the number and percentage of patients who by reason of age or disability are entitled to Medicare claim identification numbers; (c) whether any of the individuals identified in subsection (b) are not entitled to Medicare benefits and the reasons therefor; (d) whether any practice of the department of public welfare or department of public health has resulted in patients admitted to public health hospitals with or entitled to Medicare identification numbers not being entitled to benefits under the Medicare program; and (e) the cost savings and revenue which will be generated from the billings required by this section.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64 - Annual Inventory; Report; Audit

Section 64. The commissioner shall annually cause to be made an accurate inventory of the stock and supplies on hand and the amount and value thereof at the end of the fiscal year at each hospital under the department; shall make a full and detailed annual report of the condition of each such hospital, and all its affairs, with a copy of the inventory required herein; shall receive and audit the annual report of the treasurer of each hospital, and shall deposit the same, with said annual report, with the state secretary.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64a - Cushing Hospital; General Supervision by Department

Section 64A. The department, subject to the provisions of sections sixty-four B to sixty-four M, inclusive, shall have general supervision of the Cushing Hospital.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64b - Chronic Care Hospital; Services Provided; Research on Aging

Section 64B. The Cushing Hospital shall be maintained in the town of Framingham as a chronic care hospital, primarily to provide a comprehensive program of health care services to aging citizens. Subject to the provisions of section twenty-five B to twenty-five G, inclusive, such health care services are authorized to include long term chronic care; acute inpatient and outpatient care, including but not limited to medical, surgical, restorative, and rehabilitative services; dental services; skilled nursing care and intermediate care facility services; hospice services; congregate housing services; and home health services.  The Cushing Hospital may also engage in research into the causes and prevention of premature aging and the prevention and cure of diseases associated with aging individuals. Said hospital may develop educational programs for providers of health care and other services to the elderly, and for the general public, to improve the quality of such care and services received by the elderly. Said hospital may serve as a teaching facility for the education of highly skilled professionals in relevant areas of medicine and surgery.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64c - Board of Trustees

Section 64C. There shall be a board of trustees of the Cushing Hospital which shall consist of twelve members appointed by the governor. Each member shall serve a term of six years and two members shall be appointed each January, to take office on the first Wednesday of the following February. Members of the board may be removed for cause and shall serve without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for all expenses reasonably incurred in the performance of their duties. The board of trustees shall meet at least four times in each year.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64d - Corporation; Investments

Section 64D. The trustees shall be a corporation for the purpose of taking and holding, by them and their successors, in the name of the commonwealth, and in accordance with the terms thereof, any grant or devise of land or any gift or bequest of money or other personal property made for the use or benefit of the hospital or its patients. The trustees shall also receive all payments and third party reimbursements, including the entire payments, both state and federal, made pursuant to Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, for patient care as provided in section sixty-four E.  The trustees may invest any such gifts, payments or reimbursements in any investment as is legal for savings banks in the commonwealth. For said purposes, the trustees may employ such agents as it may from time to time determine to be wise and proper, including any trust company or other corporation authorized by law to administer trusts and may from funds received as aforesaid or the income thereof pay such expenses as may be necessary for the prudent administration of such gifts, payments or reimbursements.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64e (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64e - Administration of Hospital; General Trust Fund

Section 64E. The trustees may appoint all persons necessary for the proper administration of the affairs of the hospital, and may incur all expenses necessary for the maintenance thereof.  The trustees shall deposit all monies received in payment or reimbursement for patient services into a general trust fund for the hospital. All monies so deposited may be expended without further appropriation. Any monies in such fund at the end of a fiscal year shall remain in such fund and shall not revert to the General Fund.  The monies from the general trust fund shall be expended in accordance with the following purposes:  (a) to pay for the operating expenses of Cushing Hospital, including administrative and health care delivery services;  (b) for the capital improvement and development of the medical school, including, but not limited to, the repair and maintenance of the present buildings, construction of a new facility, and the acquisition of medical and academic equipment and materials;  (c) to provide compensation, including additional fringe benefits, for employees of the hospital as the board of trustees may authorize and direct; and  (d) for medical research into innovative procedures for the long term care of elderly persons.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64f (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64f - Projected Revenue and Disbursement Schedule of General Trust Fund

Section 64F. The trustees shall annually prepare a projected revenue and disbursement schedule of the general trust fund. Such schedule shall be filed with the commissioner, the secretary of the executive office of human services, the commissioner of administration, and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64g (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64g - Establishment of Other Trust Funds; Assent to Federal Laws; Contracts and Agreements

Section 64G. The trustees may from time to time establish other trust funds. In the use, management, and administration of gifts or other monies held in trust, the trustees or their agents shall in their discretion so act as most effectively to aid the beneficiaries in accordance with the terms of such gift or trust. Any unrestricted balances remaining in a trust fund upon its termination shall be transferred to the general trust fund and used for the purposes authorized for the general trust fund.  The trustees shall have the authority to assent to federal laws designed to benefit the hospital and to enter into contracts or agreements with the federal government or agencies thereof, as well as into contracts or agreements with agencies of other governments, colleges or university foundations, corporations, interstate compact agencies and individuals where such contracts or agreements, in the judgment of the trustees, will promote the objectives of the hospital.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64h (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64h - Rules and Regulations

Section 64H. The trustees of the hospital may adopt, amend or repeal such rules and regulations for the management, control and administration of inpatient fees, and for regulating or limiting the method and amounts which may be disbursed from the trust funds, particularly the general trust fund. The trustees shall publish such rules and regulations and shall file copies thereof with the commissioner, the secretary of the executive office of human services, the commissioner of administration and the house and senate committees on ways and means.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64i (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64i - Staff Members Employees of Commonwealth

Section 64I. All members of the professional and non-professional staff of the hospital shall continue to be employees of the commonwealth, irrespective of the source of funds from which their salaries are paid. They shall have the same privileges and benefits of other employees of the commonwealth, such as retirement benefits, group insurance, industrial accident coverage, and other coverage enjoyed by all employees of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64j (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64j - Delegation of Authority by Trustees

Section 64J. The Trustees may, except as to the duties imposed on powers granted under section sixty-four H, delegate their authority or any portion thereof to the superintendent of the hospital or any other officer of the hospital whenever in their judgment such delegation may be necessary or desirable.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64l (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64l - Superintendent; Subordinate Officers and Employees

Section 64L. The board of trustees of the hospital, with the approval of the commissioner, shall appoint a superintendent who shall be the chief executive officer of the hospital. The person appointed as superintendent shall have a doctoral degree or a master's degree from an accredited college or university in the area of medicine, law, gerontology, psychology, rehabilitation, or hospital administration. The superintendent, with the approval of the trustees, may appoint and remove subordinate officers and employees as are necessary to carry out the purposes of the hospital. Such employees shall not be subject to section forty-five, forty-six, and forty-six C of chapter thirty or to any other limits on the number and classification of permanent and temporary positions.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 64m (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 64m - Care Center

Section 64M. There shall be a center on the care of the aging, research, and education, hereinafter referred to as the care center. The care center shall provide research into long term care of the aging, develop innovative models of delivery of such care, and provide technical assistance and training to other providers of long term care to the elderly.  The care center shall consist of an affiliation agreement between Cushing Hospital, the University of Massachusetts medical school, the University of Massachusetts programs on gerontology at Boston and Worcester, and any other appropriate organizations which may, from time to time, become a party to such agreement.  The care center shall be administered by a board of directors, which shall consist of five members, one of whom shall be the superintendent of Cushing Hospital, who shall serve as chairman of the board, one of whom shall be the dean of the University of Massachusetts medical school, one of whom shall be an official of a gerontology program of the University of Massachusetts to be appointed by the board of trustees of said university, one of whom shall be the director of the medical assistance program of the department of public welfare, and one of whom shall be the secretary of the executive office of elder affairs or his designee.  The care center shall be authorized, subject to the affiliation agreement, to expend money and appoint employees to carry out activities within its purposes.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 65a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 65a - Admission to Lakeville Hospital

Section 65A. The department may admit to the Lakeville hospital persons suffering from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, persons crippled by poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), arthritis or muscular dystrophy and other similar diseases, aging persons, crippled children as defined in the regulations of the department, and persons with chronic diseases; provided, that preference shall be given to citizens of the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 65c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 65c - Patients' Funds; Deposit

Section 65C. The superintendent of any institution under the supervision and control of the department may deposit in any bank or trust company within the commonwealth or on paid-up shares and accounts of and in co-operative banks, funds belonging to individual patients and funds deposited by their relatives or friends to be used for their benefit, or may use said funds to purchase share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, in an account entitled ''Patients' Funds'', or the superintendent may, whenever he deems it desirable, deposit such funds in such banks in separate accounts as trustee or use said funds to purchase share accounts of a federal savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, as trustee, in each instance, for the patient.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 65d (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 65d - Patients' Funds; Disposition of Unclaimed Deposits

Section 65D. So much of any funds known as ''Patients' Funds'' as represents monies belonging to, or deposited for the benefit of, former patients of any such institution, which shall have remained unclaimed for more than seven years, shall be paid by the superintendent thereof to the state treasurer to be held subject to be paid to the person establishing a lawful right thereto, with interest at the rate of three per cent per annum from the time when it was so paid to the state treasurer to the time when it is paid by him to such person; provided, that so much of any monies so paid to the state treasurer as may be necessary to reimburse the institution for any sum due for the support of the person by whom or for whose benefit such money was originally deposited shall be credited to said trustees for that purpose. After six years from the date when any such monies were paid to the state treasurer the same or any balance thereof then remaining in his hands may be used as a part of the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person may, however, establish his claim after the expiration of the six years above mentioned, and any claim so established shall be paid from the ordinary revenue of the commonwealth. Any person claiming a right to money deposited with the state treasurer under this section may establish the same by a petition to the probate court; provided, that in cases where claims amount to less than fifty dollars, the claims may be presented to the comptroller, who shall examine the same and allow and certify for payment such as may be proved to his satisfaction.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 67 - Gifts or Bequests

Section 67. The department may take and hold in trust gifts or bequests for its own use or for the use of any hospital under its charge and shall succeed to and retain the rights, powers and duties formerly held or acquired by the trustees of hospitals for consumptives.
MA Gen L ch 111 § 67a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XVI - Public Health|Chapter 111 - Public Health|Section 67a - Notice of Birth of Infant Weighing 2500 Grams or Less or With High Risk Problem; Annual Reporting on Status of Premature and High Risk Infants

Section 67A. (a) Within 10 days after the birth of any infant weighing 2500 grams or less or any infant with a high risk problem as defined by the department, each hospital or in the case of a birth outside of a hospital, the person responsible for delivery shall file a written notice of such birth on a form with the department. The department shall promulgate rules which shall define the high risk problems and shall provide such reporting forms and shall set forth the procedure to be followed when making such reports. Such notices and reports shall be for the use of the department and its programs and shall not constitute a public record.  (b) The department shall submit an annual report to the general court not later than October 1 on the status of premature and high risk infants. The report shall include: (i) a description of the progress in implementing section 67C; (ii) information about the incidence and cause of re-hospitalizations of infants born premature within their first 6 months of life; and (iii) recommendations for improvement of newborn health outcomes and ensuring continued health quality improvement, including recommendations concerning technological needs to improve monitoring of premature infants after discharge from the hospital and transition to a health care provider.