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GA Code § 31-11-113 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-113. Certification; Application Process; Inspections

  A hospital identified as a comprehensive or primary stroke center shall be certified as such by a national health care accreditation body recognized by the department. Any hospital wishing to receive official identification under this subsection shall submit a written application to the department, providing adequate documentation of the hospital's valid certification as a comprehensive or primary stroke center by any such national health care accreditation body.   Remote treatment stroke centers shall be certified and identified by the department either by certification as an acute stroke-ready hospital by a national health care accreditation body recognized by the department or through an application process to be determined by the department. Said application process shall contain, at minimum, the following requirements:   Remote treatment stroke center certifications and identifications by the department are limited to those hospitals that utilize current and acceptable telemedicine protocols relative to acute stroke treatment as defined by the department;   Upon receipt of complete and proper application for certification as a remote treatment stroke center, the department shall schedule and conduct an inspection of the applicant's facility no later than 90 days after receipt of application; and   Any hospital, upon certification by the department as a remote treatment stroke center, shall automatically be identified as a remote treatment stroke center and shall be added to the list of such hospitals maintained pursuant to subsection (a) of Code Section 31-11-115.     Any additional levels of stroke centers established by the department pursuant to subsection (a) of Code Section 31-11-112 shall be certified by the department in accordance with any criteria and guidelines established by the department in rules and regulations.   Comprehensive and primary stroke centers are encouraged to coordinate, through agreement, with remote treatment stroke centers throughout the state to provide appropriate access to care for acute stroke patients. The coordinating stroke care agreements shall be in writing and include at minimum:   Transfer agreements for the transport and acceptance of all stroke patients seen by the remote treatment stroke center for stroke treatment therapies which the remote treatment stroke center is not capable of providing; and   Communication criteria and protocols with the remote treatment stroke centers.       (Code 1981, §31-11-113, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2012, p. 337, § 6/SB 361; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."
GA Code § 31-11-114 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-114. Grants; Report

  In order to encourage and ensure the establishment of stroke centers throughout the state, the department shall award grants, subject to appropriations from the General Assembly, to hospitals that seek identification as remote treatment stroke centers and demonstrate a need for financial assistance to develop the necessary infrastructure, including personnel and equipment, in order to satisfy the criteria for identification as a remote treatment stroke center pursuant to subsection (b) of Code Section 31-11-113.   A hospital seeking identification as a remote treatment stroke center pursuant to this article may apply to the department for a grant, in a manner and on a form required by the department, and provide such information as the department deems necessary to determine if the hospital is eligible for the grant.   The department may provide grants to as many hospitals as it deems appropriate, subject to appropriations, taking into consideration adequate geographic diversity with respect to locations.   The department shall annually prepare and submit to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the chairpersons of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee for distribution to its committee members a report indicating the total number of hospitals that have applied for grants pursuant to this Code section, the number of applicants that have been determined by the department to be eligible for such grants, the total number of grants to be awarded, the name and address of each grantee hospital, the amount of the award to each grantee, and the amount of each award to be disbursed to the grantee.     (Code 1981, §31-11-114, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."
GA Code § 31-11-115 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-115. Distribution of List of State Identified Stroke Centers to Emergency Medical Services Providers; Development of a Model Stroke Triage Assessment Tool; Assessment, Treatment, and Transport of Stroke Patients

  Beginning June 1, 2009, and each year thereafter, the department shall send a list of comprehensive, primary, remote treatment, and other level stroke centers identified pursuant to Code Section 31-11-113 to the medical director of each licensed emergency medical services provider in this state, shall maintain a copy of the list in the office designated with the department to oversee emergency medical services, and shall post a list of comprehensive, primary, remote treatment, and other level stroke centers on the department's website.   The department shall adopt or develop a sample stroke triage assessment tool. The department shall post this sample assessment tool on its website and distribute a copy of the sample assessment tool to each licensed emergency medical services provider no later than December 31, 2008. Each licensed emergency medical services provider shall use a stroke triage assessment tool that is substantially similar to the sample stroke triage assessment tool provided by the department.   The office designated within the department to oversee emergency medical services shall establish protocols related to the assessment, treatment, triage, and transport of stroke patients, including transport to the appropriate level stroke centers, by licensed emergency medical services providers in this state.     (Code 1981, §31-11-115, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853.)   Code Commission notes.   - Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2008, "to" was inserted preceding "the medical director" in subsection (a).   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."
GA Code § 31-11-116 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-116. Annual Reports

  In order to assure that the patients are receiving the appropriate level of care and treatment at each level of stroke center in the state, each hospital identified as a stroke center shall annually report information, as specified by the department in its rules and regulations, to the department.   The department shall collect the information reported pursuant to subsection (a) of this Code section and shall post such information in the form of a report card annually on the department's website and present such report to the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination. The results of this report card may be used by the department to conduct training with the identified facilities regarding best practices in the treatment of stroke.   In no way shall this article be construed to require disclosure of any confidential information or other data in violation of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, P.L. 104-191.     (Code 1981, §31-11-116, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853; Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-10/HB 186.)    The 2019 amendment,  effective July 1, 2019, substituted "Office of Health Strategy and Coordination" for "Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives" at end of the first sentence of subsection (b).   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."   Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-1/HB 186, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This part shall be known and may be cited as 'The Health Act.'"
GA Code § 31-11-117 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-117. Statutory Construction

 This article shall not be construed to be a medical practice guideline and shall not be used to restrict the authority of a hospital to provide services for which it has received a license under state law. The General Assembly intends that all patients be treated individually based on each patient's needs and circumstances.    (Code 1981, §31-11-117, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."
GA Code § 31-11-118 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-118. Advertising

 A hospital may not advertise to the public, by way of any medium whatsoever, that it is identified by the state as a comprehensive, primary, remote treatment, or other level stroke center unless the hospital has been identified as such by the department pursuant to this article.    (Code 1981, §31-11-118, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."
GA Code § 31-11-119 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 6 - System of Certified Stroke Centers|§ 31-11-119. Rules and Regulations

 The department shall be authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this article.    (Code 1981, §31-11-119, enacted by Ga. L. 2008, p. 1102, § 2/SB 549; Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 1/HB 853.)   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2016, p. 438, § 2/HB 853, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "The department shall begin the rulemaking process to effect the provisions of this Act no later than June 30, 2016."
GA Code § 31-11-130 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-130. Legislative Findings

 The General Assembly finds and declares that:    Cardiovascular disease is the number one cause of death in the United States and in Georgia;   Georgia ranks as the thirty-eighth worst in the nation for numbers of deaths from cardiovascular disease;   There were 79,901 deaths in Georgia in 2015, and cardiovascular disease (excluding stroke) accounted for 23.6 percent of such deaths;   Approximately 40 percent of cardiac deaths occur suddenly, the result of a heart attack that is manifested by an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest;   As of 2016, several states, but notably Arizona and Washington, have designated hospitals that are expert in cardiovascular disease care, much in the way that Georgia has stroke and trauma centers; Arizona and Washington have some of the lowest death rates for patients who have heart attacks, in part due to their designated cardiac centers; and   Therefore, it is in the best interest of the residents of this state to establish a program to identify emergency cardiac care centers throughout the state to ensure the rapid triage, assessment, treatment, and transport of patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest or heart attack or its complications.     (Code 1981, §31-11-130, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-131 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-131. Definitions

 As used in this article, the term:    "Emergency cardiac care center" means a hospital that has been designated by the office pursuant to this article as meeting the criteria set forth in this article.   "Office" means the Office of Cardiac Care established pursuant to this article.     (Code 1981, §31-11-131, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-133 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-133. Designation as Emergency Cardiac Care Center; Suspension or Revocation

  A hospital shall apply to the office for designation as an emergency cardiac care center through an application process to be determined by the office. A hospital shall demonstrate to the satisfaction of the office that the hospital meets the applicable criteria set forth in this article. The application process may include an on-site inspection of the hospital at the discretion of the office.   The office shall establish requirements for the periodic redesignation of emergency cardiac care centers.   The office may suspend or revoke a hospital's identification as an emergency cardiac care center, after notice and hearing, if the office determines that the hospital is not in compliance with the requirements or criteria of this article.     (Code 1981, §31-11-133, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-134 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-134. Data Reporting System

  The office shall establish a data reporting system which may be composed of one or more data bases for the reporting of data on all out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients and all heart attack patients. The data reporting system may be composed of data bases established or designated by the office, including, but not limited to, data bases newly created and managed by or on behalf of the office, existing state data bases modified to include such additional reporting, existing regional or national data bases, or any combination thereof.   Each emergency cardiac care center shall:   Report to the data base specified by the office data on all out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients and data on all heart attack patients in accordance with time frame requirements established by the office; and   Have a written system included in the protocols for the hospital for timely submission of all such data required to be submitted pursuant to this Code section and office guidelines.     The office shall, on an ongoing basis, analyze state-wide data collected pursuant to this Code section for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients and heart attack patients, with the goal of improving survival rates over the initial three years of the program, and shall improve any processes or adjust any protocols as necessary to implement best practices to improve the cardiac care of patients through emergency cardiac care centers in this state.   The office shall collect the data reported pursuant to this Code section and shall post such information in the form of an annual report card on the office's website and present such report to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The results of this report card may be used by the office to conduct training with the identified hospitals regarding best practices in the treatment of emergency cardiac care patients.   In no way shall this article be construed to require disclosure of any confidential information or other data in violation of the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, P.L. 104-191.     (Code 1981, §31-11-134, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-135 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-135. Grants to Hospitals; Reporting

  In order to encourage and ensure the establishment of emergency cardiac care centers throughout the state, the office shall award grants, subject to appropriations from the General Assembly, to hospitals that seek designation as emergency cardiac care centers and demonstrate a need for financial assistance to develop the necessary infrastructure, including personnel and equipment, in order to satisfy the criteria for designation as an emergency cardiac care center pursuant to this article.   A hospital seeking designation as an emergency cardiac care center pursuant to this article may apply to the office for a grant, in a manner and on a form required by the office, and provide such information as the office deems necessary to determine if the hospital is eligible for such grant.   The office may provide grants to as many hospitals as it deems appropriate, subject to appropriations from the General Assembly, taking into consideration adequate geographic diversity with respect to locations.   The office shall annually prepare and submit to the Office of Health Strategy and Coordination a report indicating the total number of hospitals that have applied for grants pursuant to this Code section, the number of applicants that have been determined by the office to be eligible for such grants, the total number of grants to be awarded, the name and address of each grantee, and the amount of the award to each grantee.     (Code 1981, §31-11-135, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102; Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-11/HB 186.)    The 2019 amendment,  effective July 1, 2019, substituted "Office of Health Strategy and Coordination" for "Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the chairpersons of the House Committee on Health and Human Services and the Senate Health and Human Services Committee for distribution to its committee members" in the middle of subsection (d).   Editor's notes.   - Ga. L. 2019, p. 148, § 2-1/HB 186, not codified by the General Assembly, provides: "This part shall be known and may be cited as 'The Health Act.'"
GA Code § 31-11-136 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-136. Listing of Emergency Cardiac Care Centers; Emergency Cardiac Care Triage Assessment Tool; Protocols

  Beginning June 1, 2018, and each year thereafter, the office shall provide a list of emergency cardiac care centers designated pursuant to this article to the medical director of each licensed emergency medical services provider in this state, shall maintain a copy of such list in the office, and shall post such list on the office's website.   The office shall adopt or develop a sample emergency cardiac care triage assessment tool. The office shall post this sample assessment tool on its website and distribute a copy of the sample assessment tool to each licensed emergency medical services provider no later than December 31, 2017. Each licensed emergency medical services provider shall use an emergency cardiac care triage assessment tool that is substantially similar to the sample emergency cardiac care triage assessment tool provided by the office.   The office shall establish protocols related to the triage, assessment, treatment, and transport of emergency cardiac care patients by licensed emergency medical services providers in this state.     (Code 1981, §31-11-136, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-137 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-137. Statutory Construction

 This article shall not be construed to be a medical practice guideline or to establish a standard of care for treatment and shall not be used to restrict the authority of a hospital to provide services for which it has received a license under state law. The General Assembly intends that all patients be treated individually based on each patient's needs and circumstances.    (Code 1981, §31-11-137, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-138 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-138. Advertisement as Emergency Cardiac Care Center

 A hospital may not advertise to the public, by way of any medium whatsoever, that it is identified by the state as an emergency cardiac care center unless the hospital has been designated as such by the office pursuant to this article.    (Code 1981, §31-11-138, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-11-139 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 11 - Emergency Medical Services|Article 7 - Emergency Cardiac Care Centers|§ 31-11-139. Rules and Regulations

 The office shall be authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to carry out the purposes of this article.    (Code 1981, §31-11-139, enacted by Ga. L. 2017, p. 302, § 1/SB 102.)
GA Code § 31-21-1 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 21 - Dead Bodies|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-21-1. Approved Disinfectant; "Embalming" Defined

  An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less than 5 percent formaldehyde gas.   As used in this chapter, the term "embalming" means the injection by a licensed embalmer of not less than 10 percent of the weight for bodies of persons dead of communicable diseases, such as smallpox and diphtheria, injected arterially in addition to cavity injection and, in all other cases, not less than 6 percent of the body weight injected arterially in addition to cavity injection.    (Ga. L. 1916, p. 77, § 1; Code 1933, § 88-605; Code 1933, § 88-2713, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)   Cross references.   - Licenses for funeral directors and embalmers, § 43-18-40 et seq.   Law reviews.   - For article, "A Review of Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, The Court, and Buck v. Bell," see 26 Ga. St. U. L. Rev. 1295, (2010).   RESEARCH REFERENCES   C.J.S.   - 25A C.J.S., Dead Bodies, §§ 2 et seq., 8 et seq., 12, 16, 40, 43, 46 56, 61, 65.
GA Code § 31-21-2 (2021)
2021 Georgia Code|Title 31 - Health|Chapter 21 - Dead Bodies|Article 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-21-2. Conflict With Authority of Commissioner of Agriculture

 Nothing in this article shall repeal or be construed to conflict with any power and authority now vested in the Commissioner of Agriculture by the laws of this state.   (Code 1933, § 88-2714, enacted by Ga. L. 1964, p. 499, § 1.)